Markde...tandard(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

Markdent::Dialect::Standard — it's Markdown, bestie. Specifically the plain Markdown as defined by John Gruber. No extra toppings, no sprinkles, just the classic. 🎀

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

use Markdent::Parser;

my $parser = Markdent::Parser->new( handler => ... );

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so the "Standard" dialect is literally just plain Markdown — the way John Gruber defined it (<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>) and the way Dingus implements it (<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus>). That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🦋

And here's the tea: this is the default dialect, so you don't even have to ask for it. It's just there, showing up uninvited but in a cute way. 💅

👀 DEVIATIONS 👀

The Standard dialect as implemented by Markdent is not a perfect copy of Dingus, and ngl there are a few ways they differ:

• HTML attribute quote delimiters are not preserved, so a single quote may get converted into a double quote. It's giving ✨glow-up✨ but for punctuation.
• Whitespace on an empty line in a code block? Markdent keeps it. Dingus does not. Markdent said "I'm preserving the vibes." 💀
• Markdent will not generate bad HTML from Markdown markup. It does not allow unbalanced markup events to propagate — instead it turns those unbalanced events into plain text. Iconic behaviour, fr fr.

Here's an example so you can see it with your own eyes:

*em **strong* wtf**

Dingus turns that into:

<p><em>em <strong>strong</em> wtf</strong></p>

Markdent's HTML output for the same input:

<p><em>em **strong</em> wtf**</p>

🙈 But wait — when it comes to inline HTML, Markdent echoes it more or less as-is, so you can still produce bad HTML with Markdent. She's not your babysitter, she's just doing her best.

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💀 BUGS 💀

See Markdent for bug reporting details. Go tell on it, bestie.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Dave Rolsky, <autarch@urth.org>

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🫶 COPYRIGHT & LICENSE 🫶

Copyright 2009-2012 Dave Rolsky, All Rights Reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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perl v5.32.1 · 2021-08-31 — that's the version and the date, mwah 💋 thanks for reading, bestie, go write some Markdown 🧚💜