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Asked: 2020-05-04 09:31:00 +0800 CST

Where can I find a better version of markdown?

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I'm using markdown from the repos on Ubuntu 19.10. This seems to be a quite old version:

>markdown -v

This is Markdown, version 1.0.1.
Copyright 2004 John Gruber
http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/

It doesn't support useful features such as "fenced" code blocks (line are concatenated as if if only kept the last of the opening backticks and the first of the closing backticks).

When I look for a markdown man page on the web there is obviously a more recent (2008) and more complete version (many more options than in my local man page). Where can I find it? Is its source available somewhere? Searching for markdown on the web is near impossible since you get thousands of hits for markdown syntax cheatsheets.

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  1. Best Answer

    There are some clues that the newer package is named discount.

    But fenced code blocks are an Markdown extension.

    Also I can recommend to check at least:

    1. ReText editor, which is build on top of python3-markdown:

      sudo apt install retext

    2. Pandoc to convert between many formats and Markdown variants:

      sudo apt install pandoc

    3. RStudio for creation of comprehensive dynamic RMarkdown documents

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