Re: Exporting .org to .md for Sourcehut (sr.ht); ox-md not following Markdown spec?

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> On 2020-12-02 14:44, Tim Cross wrote:
>
> I could be completely wrong here, but I suspect this is a combination
> of the evolving markdown spec (or more specifically, no one standard
> spec) and the age of the org mode markdown exporter.

FWIW, it sort of feels that way to me, too.

> One of the challenges with markdown is that there has never been one
> universally accepted spec.

Yes, I am aware of the history.  And this is one of my main criticisms
of Markdown, and why I prefer Orgmode (by a wide margin).  In fact I
agree (strongly) with Karl Voit's article "Org-Mode Is One of the Most
Reasonable Markup Languages to Use for Text."[0]

> It might be worth looking in the archive. I seem to recall other
> discussions along these lines some months back. My flawed memory seems
> to recall that it was probably time for org's markdown exporter to be
> updated to fit with the more 'common' markdown standard, but I don't
> recall which that was or whether anyone decided to take that
> responsibility on.

Thanks, I'll have a look.  I was also sort of getting the sense that
updating the Markdown exporter might be the answer, hence me starting
this thread.

> Org already has two markdown flavors - 'generic' markdown and github
> flavoured markdown. Org's current markdown is based on
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown, which probably varies
> enough from the one used by sourcehut to cause the problems you are
> seeing.

I think the problem is actually because Sourcehut are sanitizing the id
attribute out of links, as I have replied already to some other people
in this thread.

> Unfortunately, this fails to provide a clear path to fix your problem.

Yeah, this is like (at least) my second day into this now.  :)  Which is
why I paused to seek more counsel on the best way forward.  As there
seem to be no good/clear (or at least, easy) answers.

Thanks for the input.

Cheers,
TRS-80

[0] https://karl-voit.at/2017/09/23/orgmode-as-markup-only/