cmark

My personal build of CMark ✏️
Commit: b0fa8e0aa806e61a93649d9245f63e84b4c41a1d
Parent: 141cf324c157d21f64f505c0923b46cca97b3d81
Author: John MacFarlane <fiddlosopher@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 21:54:05 -0700
More capitalizing Markdown.
Diffstat

1 file changed, 14 insertions, 14 deletions
Status	File Name	N° Changes	Insertions	Deletions
Modified	narrative.md	28	14	14
diff --git a/narrative.md b/narrative.md
@@ -2,14 +2,14 @@
 title: CommonMark
 ...
 
-CommonMark is a [specification of markdown
+CommonMark is a [specification of Markdown
 syntax](http://jgm.github.io/stmd/spec.html), together with
 BSD3-licensed implementations (`stmd`) in C and javascript. The source
 for the spec and the two implementations can be found in [this
 repository](http://github.com/jgm/stmd).
 
 The C implementation provides both a library and a standalone program
-`stmd` that converts markdown to HTML. It is written in standard C99 and
+`stmd` that converts Markdown to HTML. It is written in standard C99 and
 has no library dependencies.
 
 The javascript implementation is a single javascript file, with no
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ dependencies. [Try it now!](http://jgm.github.io/stmd/js/)
 
 [The spec](http://jgm.github.io/stmd/spec.html) contains over 400
 embedded examples which serve as conformance tests. (The source contains
-a perl script that will run the tests against any markdown program.)
+a perl script that will run the tests against any Markdown program.)
 
 The spec is written from the point of view of the human writer, not the
 computer reader. It is not an algorithm—an English translation of a
 computer program—but a declarative description of what counts as a block
 quote, a code block, and each of the other structural elements that can
-make up a markdown document. For the most part, the spec limits itself
+make up a Markdown document. For the most part, the spec limits itself
 to the basic elements described in John Gruber’s [canonical syntax
 description](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax),
 eschewing extensions like footnotes and definition lists. It is
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ decisions, many of them somewhat arbitrary. In making them, I have
 appealed to existing conventions and considerations of simplicity,
 readability, expressive power, and consistency. I have tried to ensure
 that “normal” documents in the many incompatible existing
-implementations of markdown will render, as far as possible, as their
+implementations of Markdown will render, as far as possible, as their
 authors intended. And I have tried to make the rules for different
 elements work together harmoniously. In places where different decisions
 could have been made (for example, the rules governing list
 indentation), I have explained the rationale for my choices. In a few
 cases, I have departed slightly from the canonical syntax description,
-in ways that I think further the goals of markdown as stated in that
+in ways that I think further the goals of Markdown as stated in that
 description.
 
 There are only a few places where this spec says things that contradict
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ the canonical syntax description:
 
 -   It [allows all punctuation symbols to be
     backslash-escaped](http://jgm.github.io/stmd/spec.html#backslash-escapes),
-    not just the symbols with special meanings in markdown. I found
+    not just the symbols with special meanings in Markdown. I found
     that it was just too hard to remember which symbols could be
     escaped.
 
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ the canonical syntax description:
 -   The rule for HTML blocks differs, though in most real cases it
     shouldn't make a difference. (See
     [here](http://jgm.github.io/stmd/spec.html#html-blocks) for
-    details.) The spec's proposal makes it easy to include markdown
+    details.) The spec's proposal makes it easy to include Markdown
     inside HTML block-level tags, if you want to, but also allows you to
     exclude this. It is also makes parsing much easier, avoiding
     expensive backtracking.
@@ -114,18 +114,18 @@ the canonical syntax description:
     backticks (` ``` `) or tildes (` ~~~ `).
 
 In all of this, I have been guided by eight years experience writing
-markdown implementations in several languages, including the first
-markdown parser not based on regular expression substitutions
-([pandoc](http://github.com/jgm/pandoc)) and the first markdown parsers
+Markdown implementations in several languages, including the first
+Markdown parser not based on regular expression substitutions
+([pandoc](http://github.com/jgm/pandoc)) and the first Markdown parsers
 based on PEG grammars
 ([peg-markdown](http://github.com/jgm/peg-markdown),
 [lunamark](http://github.com/jgm/lunamark)). Maintaining these projects
 and responding to years of user feedback have given me a good sense of
-the complexities involved in parsing markdown, and of the various design
+the complexities involved in parsing Markdown, and of the various design
 decisions that can be made. I have also explored differences between
-markdown implementations extensively using [babelmark
+Markdown implementations extensively using [babelmark
 2](http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/). In the early phases of
 working out the spec, I benefited greatly from collaboration with David
 Greenspan, and from extensive discussions with a group of industrial
-users of markdown, including Jeff Atwood, Vincent Marti, and Neil
+users of Markdown, including Jeff Atwood, Vincent Marti, and Neil
 Williams.