Re: [O] [bug] [new exporter] [markdown] Underline exports as HTML

[Rick Frankel]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 09:54:22AM -0600, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Pandoc supports tables in markdown documents, maybe this would be a good
> syntax to target, as with pandoc markdown may be further exported to
> either HTML or LaTeX.
> 
>   http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#tables
> 
> FWIW, it looks like pandoc also supports Org-mode tables.
> 
>   http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pipe-tables
> 

There is a fairly standard set of extensions to the markdown syntax
called Markdown Extra, based on the extensions made for php:

      http://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/

however, a number of markdown processors support it, including 

      multimarkdown: http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/

A couple of ruby processing libraries:

  http://kramdown.rubyforge.org/syntax.html
  http://maruku.rubyforge.org/maruku.html

Kramdown also support org table format.

and python: http://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/extra.html

I have used both ruby libraries extensively. It would be nice for the
markdown exporter to allow using the standard markdown extensions
(perhaps with a switch).

rick