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		zdw 10 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and... Well, there's this: https://commonmark.org But everyone seems to have their own slightly different flavor, either pre- or post- that "standardization".

everybodyknows 10 days ago [–]

Notably, Github's superset:

https://github.github.com/gfm/

zdw 10 days ago | [–]

Given Github's owner, it's right out of their Embrace, Extend ... playbook.

kennywinker 9 days ago | | [–]

GFM predates microsoft’s acquisition of github by one year as a formal spec and six years as an informal one - but ms hardly has a monopoly on embrace-extend-extinguish.

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