Djot is a light markup language. It takes inspiration from CommonMark but aims to provide a cleaner, more expressive syntax that is easier for both humans and parsers to work with.
Djot is intended for plain text authoring and publishing, with support for rich structural elements while avoiding some of the ambiguity and parsing complexity associated with traditional Markdown implementations.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Supports definition lists, footnotes, tables, and mathematical content.
- Offers additional inline formatting such as insert, delete, highlight, superscript, and subscript.
- Allows arbitrary attributes to be attached to any element.
- Provides generic containers for block-level, inline-level, and raw content.
- Designed so documents can be parsed efficiently in linear time.
- Includes a syntax description, cheatsheet, playground, and guidance for Markdown users.
- Has multiple implementations and editor tooling across different environments.
Website: github.com/jgm/djot
Support:
Developer: John MacFarlane
License: MIT License
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