Texty! Things we can potentially learn from this alternative to markdown

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Its always good to learn from how others standards approach this problem of text markup. Here is one project named Texy! I only highlighted a few that I noticed as interesting. But you may find others interesting in the source link below:

Interesting way to deal with line breaks without newline or \ 

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,
 still the same paragraph, but wrapped with element `<br>`
 using one space before

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet,<br>
still the same paragraph, but wrapped with element <code>&lt;br&gt;</code><br>
one space before</p>

Containers

/---div .[header]
  ## This is a header.
  /---div
    nested div
  \---
  Texy is sexy!
\---

<div class="header">
	<h6>This is a header.</h6>
	<div>
		<p>nested div</p>
	</div>
	<p>Texy is sexy!</p>
</div>

Acronym and abbrs handling

jednoslovnc: NATO((North Atlantic Treaty Organisation))
víceslovnc: "et al."((a další))

jednoslovnc: <acronym title="North Atlantic Treaty Organisation">NATO</acronym>
víceslovnc: <acronym title="a další">et al.</abbr>

Arrows

  • arrows <- and -> and <->

Modifiers

We already do this in pandoc with the ![](){} syntax but always intersting to see how others do it. In this case they use .{} to say that a line or the line below should use these settings.

Another example .{color:blue; lang: cs}

<p style="color:blue" lang="cs">Another example</p>
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The Roman Numeral ordered lists would make a nice CommonMark extension.

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Roman numerals conflict with alphabetic list markers and possibly words.

I don’t see much in Texy that would make sense to have in Markdown (extensions).

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