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Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by jiggawatts on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:12AM (#33369903)
I came to the same conclusion years ago and made myself and "alternate" markdown-like format that superficially looks the same, but has a grammar compatible with parser generators like ANTLR.

Took me about a week to produce something that could generate a nice document object model, and spit out HTML (or anything you please).

The concept is powerful. The specific Markdown implementation however is too messy for proper tooling.

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Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by chrisweekly on Friday October 28, 2022 @07:34AM (#33370077)
"too messy for proper tooling"

Obsidian and its many amazing plugins are powerful evidence to the contrary.

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Re:Why Is Markdown Popular? by jiggawatts on Saturday October 29, 2022 @08:00PM (#33389225)
By tooling I don't mean Markdown tools. I mean the tools used to produce those tools.

Think compiler-compilers such as Yacc, Bison, or ANTLR.

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