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I don't know much of these things.

I was thinking more that maybe some aspect of markdown was not easily expressed using a PEG (it's the same implementer behind both the parser in Pandoc and this project) .

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Keeping track of indent levels is not easy with PEGs but can be dealt with by pre processing

I might've missed something. Where do indent levels come into play? AFAICT Markdown has no concept of indentation.

IIRC, lists and code blocks depend on indentation to decide where they begin/end, and I think what level they're at.

I think code blocks don't track indentation. A code block is just a bunch of lines beginning with 4 spaces (or blank lines) and the rest (when >4 spaces) are treated as leading spaces.

I think you're right about lists though.

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