On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 05:21:49PM +0700, Victor Sudakov wrote: [...] > I could write a script which would convert Markdown documents to HTML > and then call Firefox on the result, but I'm surprised there is no MD > viewer like xdvi or qpdfview. This may be due to the fact that, if you look closely, Markdown is a monster. There are many variants, a significant subset of them allows a varying subset of HTML (which one?) as an extension, and quite a few are just specified by some single implementation. It is one of those extremely interesting cases where a clear strength (simplicity, under-specification: thus I can hack something together over a weekend in Perl; since I'm rendering to HTML anyway, if table support isn't enough... well, duh, I can pass-through tables and so on) can turn around. Note that I am *not* judging. This simplicity and underspecification *is a strength* (I /love/ Org Mode), but it is also a weakness. You seem to be running into the latter :-) Have a look at [1]. Does it remind you of [2]? Cheers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown [2] https://xkcd.com/927/ - t
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