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ifh-hn

25 days ago

2 replies

Why would I use this over pandoc?

runjake

25 days ago

1 reply

This question is always annoying, but I'll bite:

1. Because Apex processes more flavors of Markdown and seems to have more configurability with regard to Markdown syntaxes.

This is not a knock on pandoc. I love pandoc. I use pandoc every single week day.

2. There is no obligation for you to use it. People can create whatever they want and share it with whomever they want.

ifh-hn

25 days ago

1 reply

The question was asked in good faith, not as a set up for an argument. I'm sorry you feel put upon or need to become defensive about a honest question...

ksclarke

25 days ago

That first sentence I believe. The second not so much.

ttscoff

19 days ago

Things like Kramdown IALs, for example. Apex can handle a lot of (but not all) of Pandoc's special syntax, including cite-proc and bibliography support, but using Pandoc means you don't get features from Kramdown or mmark. Pandoc is über-powerful, but for 80-90% of simple Markdown->HTML cases, I think Apex is going to offer everything Pandoc does plus the benefit of extensions from processors it doesn't handle, and where it does handle them, you have to choose `--from markdown_mmd` or `--from gfm` --- with Apex you can use both mmd and gfm syntax at the same time with one unified parser.

rout39574

25 days ago

1 reply

Inevitable:

https://xkcd.com/927/

ttscoff

19 days ago

Yeah, that's how I felt about CommonMark, too (but I've come around). The thing I'm shooting for is not a new standard, it's a tool that implements all of the existing "standards." I'm not creating new syntax or enforcing new rules, just making a tool that means you don't have to think about which processor you're using and what extensions you might be giving up by choosing one over another.

treetalker

25 days ago

2 replies

I heart ttscoff. But I'll still wager that this is the latest rabbit hole that explains why nvUltra is still not released.

blackqueeriroh

25 days ago

You’d be incorrect.

ttscoff

19 days ago

It definitely is not. nvUltra is mostly out of my hands right now, my own projects (including Marked 3) are what I'm doing while waiting for the last pieces to come together.

zdw

27 days ago

github repo (MIT license): https://github.com/ttscoff/apex

mubou2

27 days ago

The link doesn't give any examples of the extended featureset, but there's some neat stuff here:

https://github.com/ttscoff/apex/wiki/Syntax

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