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		zzleeper on March 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown I would argue that it is consistent now. At the lowest level, you have commonmark. Then, you have extensions at the top, such as GFM. If Pandoc/Github/Reddit/SO/kramdown switch, that accounts for almost all front- and back-end cases that I care about. And given that the first four were actively involved with commonmark, I would take as given that they will support commonmark or a superset of it.

kccqzy on March 14, 2017 [–]

Pandoc already supports different flavors of markdown (commonmark included) and you can add/remove extensions to base flavors.

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