@mattiabunel @SReyCoyrehourcq @mc2 @lukascbossert @raphaellek Thanks for mentioning #orgdown. 馃檱

However, the org community still lacks a formal definition of the (whole) syntax.

From orgdown perspective, #od1 specification would be a promising low hanging fruit but as long as the #orgmode community does not embrace the "syntax separate from implementation" idea I tried to coin, this isn't going to happen, I'm afraid.

Maybe from outside of the #Emacs/org community because orgdown as a syntax has many advantages IMO: https://karl-voit.at/2025/08/17/Markdown-disaster/

Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead

Markdown Is a Disaster: Why and What to Do Instead

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@pandoc It'd be peachy if somebody would submit an #od1 compatibility rating for #pandoc with #orgdown, the syntax of #orgmode. 馃槈

@ramin_hal9001 @hyperreal @dozens I'd say that #OD1 is pretty minimal: https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Orgdown-Levels.org

ad embedded #elisp absolutely not. Not another JavaScript hell with a different scripting language. That would introduce the same issues we're facing with the current WWW. #orgdown

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Orgdown (in short 鈥淥D) is a lightweight markup language similar to Markdown but it鈥檚 consistent, easy to learn, simple to type even without tool-support, and it is based...

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There is a new lightweight #markup #standard based on #Emacs #Orgmode which is called #Orgdown. It comes with multiple levels: #Orgdown1 is out: https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/
Published at #EmacsConf21 today.
#OD #OD1 #publicvoit #LWM
Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents

Orgdown - a New Lightweight Markup Standard for Text Documents

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