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This seems to use the commonmark library to render Markdown? Can it render Pandoc flavour of Markdown?

How widespread commonmark really is? Any popular sites using it? If I write my blog posts in commonmark is it safe to assume site generation tools 10 years from now will correctly render commonmark?

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The main competitor to CommonMark is GFM, which is now based on CommonMark.

https://githubengineering.com/a-formal-spec-for-github-markd...

I had checked out CommonMark a bit and blogged about it here, including an example of using it, and a bit about their goals:

CommonMark, a pure Python Markdown parser and renderer:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2014/09/commonmark-pure-python-ma...

One interesting point from them was this:

[ Reddit user bracewel, who seems to be a CommonMark team member, said on the Py Reddit thread:

eventually we'd like to add a few more renderers, PDF/RTF being the first.... ]

Interesting, I have a little sideproject at work that would really benefit from markdown -> rtf.

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