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format conforming to |
format conforming to |
.Lk http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text\ |
.Lk http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax.text\ |
"John Gruber's 2004 specification" . |
"John Gruber's 2004 specification" . |
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The output also almost conforms to the |
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.Lk http://commonmark.org/ CommonMark |
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specification. |
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.Pp |
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The character set used for the markdown output is ASCII. |
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Non-ASCII characters are encoded as HTML entities. |
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Since that is not possible in literal font contexts, because these |
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are rendered as code spans and code blocks in the markdown output, |
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non-ASCII characters are transliterated to ASCII approximations in |
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these contexts. |
.Pp |
.Pp |
Markdown is a very weak markup language, so all semantic markup is |
Markdown is a very weak markup language, so all semantic markup is |
lost, and even part of the presentational markup may be lost. |
lost, and even part of the presentational markup may be lost. |