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…Notwithstanding the provenance and engineering, it had minimal uptake. - https://djot.net - https://github.com/jgm/djot

comment by w10-1 · 2026-07-06 · in Shrimple – A Simpler, Nicer Markdown

I agree you would need to specify the markdown to allow more implementations. https://github.com/jgm/djot Would make a good DSL inside languages, combine that with compile-time execution so that blocks can auto-recalculate and you have a…

comment by alexisread · 2026-01-10 · in Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)

I think this is what you're looking for: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jgm/djot/b...

comment by moebrowne · 2026-01-10 · in How Markdown took over the world

Djot is another interesting alternative that tries to make Markdown more parsable and coherent: https://github.com/jgm/djot#rationale

comment by eproxus · 2025-11-23 · in Markdown is holding you back

There's page about the design decisions: https://github.com/jgm/djot#rationale TLDR: single pass, multiple (identical) implementations on different platforms, HTML is not an implicit target, uniform syntax (including attribute syntax)

comment by alexisread · 2024-08-22 · in Quarkdown: Markdown with Superpowers

I'd prefer if we stopped using markdown all together, and moved to something like djot: https://github.com/jgm/djot

comment by paradox460 · 2024-08-15 · in Markdown is meant to be shown (2021)

…make it past "this behaves differently to Asciidoctor" territory. Btw a more recent alternative is https://github.com/jgm/djot which actually does have multiple implementations and looks like a way better option than Markdown, but maybe…

comment by IshKebab · 2024-07-31 · in I prefer rST to Markdown

…MLs so this is tough to swallow. EDIT: By the way, recent comment from the primary developer: https://github.com/jgm/djot/discussions/310#discussioncommen...

comment by keybored · 2024-07-31 · in I prefer rST to Markdown

Worth noting that the author has also created a markup language, djot. https://github.com/jgm/djot

comment by macintux · 2024-02-02 · in Pandoc

…pleasant as-is. It is also syntactically similar to Markdown, which should ease adoption. [0] https://github.com/jgm/djot

comment by magnio · 2024-01-21 · in Augmenting the Markdown Language for Great Python Graphical Interfaces

https://github.com/jgm/djot

comment by avgcorrection · 2023-07-02 · in Beyond Markdown (2018)

Djot is a markup language similar to Markdown but with a different rationale. See more: https://github.com/jgm/djot#rationale . A Prolog implementation like this is based on Scryer Prolog, which is a system that makes working with strings…

comment by aarroyoc · 2023-01-06 · in Djota: A Djot Implementation in Prolog

…choice is not "convenient parsing" but deeper considerations of language design. As explained at https://github.com/jgm/djot#rationale , this choice follows from two desiderata: (1) "The syntax should compose uniformly, in the following…

comment by fiddlosopher · 2022-12-06 · in Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark

…https://gavinhoward.com/2020/04/i-am-moving-away-from-github... [2]: https://docs.yzena.com/ [3]: https://github.com/jgm/djot/discussions/77

comment by gavinhoward · 2022-12-06 · in Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark

look forward to having standardized e.g. "figure captions", looks like it's being worked out here https://github.com/jgm/djot/issues/28 pandoc is interesting because with markdown it currently converts the "alt text" for figures…

comment by tonto · 2022-12-06 · in Djot: A light markup language by the creator of Pandoc and CommonMark

I can’t see what this offers over pandoc markdown or it’s successor: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jgm/djot/b...

comment by reagle · 2022-11-25 · in Show HN: A new way to do footnotes

…papers, math papers, technical documentation, slides, etc. Including the author's own djot: https://github.com/jgm/djot EDIT: Sibling reply suggests latex. OK, but then you're also learning latex.

comment by Terretta · 2022-11-18 · in Show HN: I am building a new Python library to read/write PDF files

For a static document markup language, Djot does a rather good job: https://github.com/jgm/djot It's very similar yet much fuller-featured than commonmark, with support for definition lists, footnotes, tables, several new kinds of inline…

comment by minhmeoke · 2022-11-11 · in We should have Markdown-rendered websites

Agreed. So does John McFarlane, the author of djot (and perhaps more widely known, Pandoc): < https://github.com/jgm/djot > My own convention when writing Markdown is to use single underbar for _italic_ and doubled star for **bold**.…

comment by dredmorbius · 2022-11-11 · in We should have Markdown-rendered websites

…Markdown support to web browsers or other publishing tools, please consider adopting Djot instead: https://github.com/jgm/djot It's very similar to the Markdown syntax we all know and love/hate, but fixes many inconsistencies in the spec,…

comment by minhmeoke · 2022-11-10 · in We should have Markdown-rendered websites

…html escape hatch (eg bold text within a word). The rationale page can do a better job than myself. https://github.com/jgm/djot#rationale

comment by 0cf8612b2e1e · 2022-11-03 · in Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX

…any sort of markup language. How easy is it to edit tables? https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/jgm/djot/b... In that example, xidoc requires a human to manually align ascii chars to make it look pretty... That's a job that…

comment by emmanueloga_ · 2022-10-31 · in Elements of a great markup language