Markdown is a plain text format for writing structured documents. CommonMark, is a strongly defined, highly compatible specification of Markdown, along with a suite of comprehensive tests to validate implementations.
This site is for
- discussing the proposed CommonMark specification and C and JavaScript reference implementations
- suggesting improvements to the spec and embedded tests, and the reference implementations.
- sharing information on CommonMark implementations in any programming language
We believe a complete, unambiguous CommonMark specification will promote adoption of Markdown and ensure that Markdown documents continue to render reliably in the future on every platform.
This effort was undertaken by:
John MacFarlane, jgm@berkeley.edu
David Greenspan, david@meteor.com
Vicent Marti, vicent@github.com
Neil Williams, neil@reddit.com
Benjamin Dumke-von der Ehe, ben@stackexchange.com
Jeff Atwood, jatwood@codinghorror.com
With the lion’s share of the spec and implementation by John.