Adding Markdown to Ddoc

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2017-12-08 06:35, Walter Bright wrote:

> I dunno. Make a case. There's no backward compatibility necessary, so we 
> do not have to worry about the two ways of doing lists, for example. 
> Just '*' will do.
> 
> Aside from what Ddoc already does, I'd just stick with:
> 
> * Lists
> * Nested Lists
> * Headings
> * Bold
> * Italic
> * \ escaping
> * Quoted text
> 
> and skip:
> 
> * tables
> * links
> * emoji

I think links are pretty important, or do you prefer to use Ddoc macros 
for that?

I think we should try to support standard markdown [2] plus features 
from GitHub markdown. Like fenced code blocks and syntax highlighting 
[3]. For simplicity we can start by only supporting D syntax highlighting.

Just for the record, the link you included in your original post [1], 
contains some non-standard markdown like:

* Task lists
* Mentioning people and teams
* Referencing issues and pull requests
* Using emoji

[1] https://help.github.com/articles/basic-writing-and-formatting-syntax
[2] https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax
[3] https://help.github.com/articles/creating-and-highlighting-code-blocks/

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/Jacob Carlborg