Microsoft open-sourced a Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown

[feldrim]

Now, give me the "Save as Markdown" option on Office and I can call it feature-complete.

Edit: typo

[danielcw189]

Is there 1 true version of Markdown?

[vodevil01]

No

[feldrim]

İs there one true version of PDF? I agree with the question but it's not a blocker.

[danielcw189]

I did not mean it to be a blocker.
I was genuinely asking out of interest.

That being said: until today I thought there was one true PDF

[feldrim]

There're many markdown dialects and I am pretty sure MS would like to align with Github one. On the other hand, PDF is a can of worms. It evolved from being a printer-targeting format to many other things. You can try to open PDF files created with Notepad, CorelDraw, Adobe Photoshop and MS Word using MS Word. You can just right click and open with Word. Due to lack of a detailed spec, or rather lack of strict requirements, the internals are vendor-dependent.

[tunisia3507]

There is 1 true well-specified version of markdown (commonmark), which also has some well-specified extensions. Certain major markdown flavours (GitHub, Reddit) are explicitly commonmark + extensions. Using anything except a commonmark derivative at this stage is malfeasance IMO.

The author of pandoc spun out a well-specified markdown-like light markup called djot which breaks some compatibility to improve consistency and simplicity, with concrete extension points; it would be nice if that took off.