Am 11.11.24 um 17:37 schrieb luigi scarso:
On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 14:00, Vítek Starý Novotný <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:The history is a bit convoluted. Let me see if I can help untangle it: - In 2006, Niklas Frykholm created `markdown.lua` [1], a regex-based Markdown parser written in Lua. - In 2009, John MacFarlane, the founder of Pandoc, created Lunamark [2], an LPEG-based Markdown parser that was ca three orders of magnitude faster than `markdown.lua`. Around 2011, there is a bunch of commits with speed optimizations by Hans. - In 2016, I created the Markdown Package for TeX [3] as a fork of Lunamark [3]. Initially, I would contribute fixes upstream and take them downstream. In 2023, there was a significant rewrite to support the CommonMark standard [4], which makes our code base largely incompatible with Lunamark. We are actively developed with monthly releases. Confusingly, the Markdown Package for TeX contains a file titled `markdown.lua` even though there is no relation to Niklas Frykholm's code. [1]: http://www.frykholm.se/files/markdown.lua <http:// www.frykholm.se/files/markdown.lua> [2]: https://github.com/jgm/lunamark <https://github.com/jgm/lunamark> [3]: https://github.com/witiko/markdown <https://github.com/ witiko/markdown> [4]: https://spec.commonmark.org/ <https://spec.commonmark.org/> I hope this clears things up. https://github.com/commonmark/cmark <https://github.com/commonmark/cmark>seems to be quite fast -- there is an output format for latex, an output format for context mkiv might make sense
See also Massimiliano’s articles about his internal-Pandoc-format editor in last year’s CGJ: https://yemaya.fiee.net/s/DjJBtnTFedC9zL8
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