FerrisChat's Markdown Standard

This README will contain the entire markdown standard to be used by parsers that parse plain, boring message content into ones with style.

Markdown Parsers

All official parsers are open-source. Their source code can be found in this repository.

The Standard

This will hereby begin the official markdown standard for FerrisChat chat messages.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Introduction

FerrisChat's Markdown Standard inherits a majority of it's syntax from CommonMark.

Example Format

All examples of markdown syntax will be displayed in the following format:

Example

Raw	Rich	HTML
**example text**	example text	<b>example text</b>

CommonMark inherited syntax

This section will go over markdown syntax that were completely inherited from CommonMark.

Bold/Strong text

Two asterisks (*) placed both before and after text will make said text bold or strong.

Example

Raw	Rich	HTML
**example text**	example text	<b>example text</b>

Note

Two underscores (_) placed both before and after text will not make said text bold or strong, unlike in CommonMark. The behavior of this syntax can be found at Underlines.

Italics

One asterisk placed both before and after text will make said text italicized, or slanted.
A single underscore (_) placed both before and after said text will also make the text italicized.

Examples

Raw	Rich	HTML
*example text*	example text	<i>example text</i>
_example text_	example text	<i>example text</i>

Strikethrough

Two tildes (~) placed before and after text will add a line over the center of the text, more commonly referred to as a "strikethrough".

Examples

Raw	Rich	HTML
~~example text~~	example text	<s>example text</s>

Embedded Inline Code

One or two backticks (`) placed both before and after text will render the text in a monospaced font. Said text is usually pieces of code, hence the name "inline code".

Examples

Raw	Rich	HTML
`example text`	example text	<code>example text</code>
``example text``	example text	<code>example text</code>

Embedded Block Code (Code-blocks)

Three backticks placed both before and after text will render the text as a block with a distinct background and a monospaced font. Said text is usually blocks of code, hence the name "code-block".

Adding Syntax Highlighting

Adding a valid syntax language code, followed by a newline right after the first 3 backticks with no space in-between will add syntax-highlighting to the code-block.

For example, here we are adding syntax-highlighting to a Python code-block: ```py ...```

Trailing newlines in the code-block will not be rendered.

Raw	Rich	HTML
``` example text ```	example text	<pre><code>example text</code></pre>
```py print('Hello, world!') ```	```py
print('Hello, world!')
```	<pre data-language="py"><code>...</code></pre>