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…CMSs: https://textile-lang.com/ Textile is one of the core markups supported by GitHub and Pandoc: https://github.com/github/markup / https://pandoc.org/ And many CMS, most famously TextPattern and MoveableType, but also things like…

comment by Terretta · 2026-06-02 · in Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text

Btw github supports more than just markdown: https://github.com/github/markup#markups

comment by gima · 2023-05-18 · in Lately I've been using timers daily

…GitHub will use AsciiDoctor to render AsciiDoc files; but without support for includes. ;_; ref: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1095

comment by stock_toaster · 2023-02-07 · in I wish Asciidoc was more popular

…like to add that to the repo's readme, but Github's Markdown does not support JavaScript links: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1592

comment by mg · 2022-09-24 · in Show HN: TwitterToNitter. A bookmarklet that makes reading on Twitter easier

Re: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/533 I’m the main author of KeenWrite (see screenshots[1]), a type of desktop Markdown editor that supports diagrams. It’s encouraging to see that Mermaid diagrams are being supported in GitHub.…

comment by thangalin · 2022-02-14 · in Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

…So happy to finally see it in. They should really unlock this issue[0] and let people know. [0] https://github.com/github/markup/issues/533

comment by boomskats · 2022-02-14 · in Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

…allow asciidoc(tor) syntax in comments and issues? * Note: Sadly, include is not supported on GH. https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1095

comment by stock_toaster · 2021-09-30 · in Footnotes now supported in GitHub Markdown

Alas, no support[1] for include. [1]: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1095

comment by stock_toaster · 2021-07-06 · in Compare AsciiDoc and Markdown

https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1258#issuecomment-47...

comment by stevula · 2019-10-06 · in An Update to Our Community and an Apology

yeah, they do :( https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1258

comment by svnpenn · 2019-10-06 · in An Update to Our Community and an Apology

…it certainly hosts a lot of it, github isnt open source. Yep. This was something that surprised me https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1266#issuecomment-48...

comment by svnpenn · 2019-04-29 · in Apache Software Foundation joins GitHub open source community

i was recently turned on to asciidoc from seeing that its supported at github https://github.com/github/markup and ironically development seems to have stalled on markdown with the advent of commonmark…

comment by svnpenn · 2019-03-07 · in Writing a Book with Unix

…strict AsciiDoc syntax support. The Asciidoctor repository's README.adoc renders just fine[2]. [1] https://github.com/github/markup [2] https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor

comment by geraldcombs · 2018-08-04 · in Markdeep markup language

…as you have to shift many cells when adding a new entry. A proposal for something like this: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/1189 Also mentions multi-line cell contents, which are hard in regular markdown (require inline html)..

comment by rapnie · 2018-08-04 · in Markdeep markup language

…unless there's more to Sphinx than just reStructuredText? See the list of supported markups here: https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/README.md#marku...

comment by yorwba · 2018-02-18 · in Don’t Use Markdown for Documentation (2016)

…that is designed to allow extension, and in fact already includes more features than markdown? [1]: https://github.com/github/markup#markups [2]: Markdown is harder to make ugly than html, but the OP doesn't wrap long lines, and doesn't…

comment by syrrim · 2018-01-11 · in TOAST UI Editor – Markdown WYSIWYG Editor

…* http://www.sciweavers.org/free-online-latex-equation-editor (as per: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/274 )

comment by brianjking · 2016-02-12 · in Ask HN: Best way to render latex equations in GitHub readme?

…you can embed the equations in markdown (Ipython uses Mathjax) within the notebook. [1] https://github.com/github/markup/issues/274

comment by jlrk · 2015-05-07 · in GitHub and Jupyter IPython Notebooks

…files work well on Github. I've got an open issue that would make using org files even more usable. https://github.com/github/markup/issues/473 If this gets fixed, it'll be easier to maintain a blog, site, etc on Github with org files.

comment by melling · 2015-04-16 · in EmacsConf 2015 Planning Doc

There are many different formats you can use: https://github.com/github/markup

comment by nilved · 2015-01-18 · in A list of cool features of Git and GitHub

…if checked into a repo They also support ASCIIDoc, ReST, MediaWiki markup, Creole, etc. See: https://github.com/github/markup

comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2014-11-29 · in Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012)

…the preference of Markdown over rST. Also, little do people know that github supports rst https://github.com/github/markup But looks like Creole as well, which i didn't know :)

comment by buster · 2014-11-29 · in Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language (2012)

Is .lyx supported by github? Cf. e.g. https://github.com/github/markup

comment by mazsa · 2014-04-26 · in LyX 2.1.0 released

Well, sort of. It works for AsciiDoc, Textile, and all other formats supported by https://github.com/github/markup

comment by gjtorikian · 2014-02-14 · in Rendered Prose Diffs

The main way to get to the compare view is from the branches page: 1. View the branches page: https://github.com/github/markup/branches 2. Click the "Compare" button next to a branch. 3. On the following page there’s a control at the top…

comment by cobychapple · 2013-06-13 · in There's a map for that

…was really frustrating [4]. [1] http://www.unexpected-vortices.com/doc-notes/markdown-and-re... [2] https://github.com/github/markup [3] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd... [4]…

comment by fakeer · 2013-04-26 · in Why Markdown Is Not My Favourite Language

…app is using the github-markdown[0] gem to render - so it seems strange that it isn't working. [0]: https://github.com/github/markup Edit: Ah, heres the problem: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/47 - the github-markdown gem doesn't…

comment by swanson · 2011-11-07 · in GitHub Flavored Markdown Online Preview

…interface so I had a poke around wondering how and via gollum found this in github markup tree ~ https://github.com/github/markup/blob/master/lib/github/mark... # pod2html is nice enough to generate a # full-on HTML document for us, # so…

comment by bootload · 2011-01-18 · in Git-powered wikis improved - GitHub