From 62996300efa8f3c5146ab5e25473c07f1f5aa3e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ihor Radchenko Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2023 13:04:44 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] org-manual.org: Clarify the ox-md uses the original markdown spec * doc/org-manual.org (Markdown Export): Make it more clear that we are using the original Markdown spec. Link to Wikipedia article describing different Markdown favours. --- doc/org-manual.org | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org index a54bd6f35..58a2d365f 100644 --- a/doc/org-manual.org +++ b/doc/org-manual.org @@ -14330,10 +14330,16 @@ some text in German... The Markdown export back-end, "md", converts an Org file to Markdown format, as defined at https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/. +This is the original Markdown specification, developed by John Gruber +and Aaron Swartz. -Since it is built on top of the HTML back-end (see [[*HTML Export]]), it -converts every Org construct not defined in Markdown syntax, such as -tables, to HTML. +Since "md" back-end is built on top of the HTML back-end (see [[*HTML +Export]]), it converts every Org construct not defined in Markdown +syntax, such as tables, to HTML. + +Do note that the original markdown syntax has differences with other +commonly used Markdown flavors. See +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown for more details. *** Markdown export commands :PROPERTIES: