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This is a giant change for remark. It replaces the 5+ year old internals with a new low-level parser: <https://github.com/micromark/micromark> The old internals have served billions of users well over the years, but markdown has changed over that time. micromark comes with 100% CommonMark (and GFM as an extension) compliance, and (WIP) docs on parsing rules for how to tokenize markdown with a state machine: <https://github.com/micromark/common-markup-state-machine>. micromark, and micromark in remark, is a good base for the future. `remark-parse` now defers its work to [`micromark`][micromark] and [`mdast-util-from-markdown`][from-markdown]. `micromark` is a new, small, complete, and CommonMark compliant low-level markdown parser. `from-markdown` turns its tokens into the previously (and still) used syntax tree: [mdast][]. Extensions to `remark-parse` work differently: they’re a two-part act. See for example [`micromark-extension-footnote`][micromark-footnote] and [`mdast-util-footnote`][from-markdown-footnote]. * change: `commonmark` is no longer an option — it’s the default * move: `gfm` is no longer an option — moved to `remark-gfm` * remove: `pedantic` is no longer an option — this legacy and buggy flavor of markdown is no longer widely used * remove: `blocks` is no longer an options — it’s no longer suggested to change the internal list of HTML “block” tag names remark-stringify now defers its work to [`mdast-util-to-markdown`][to-markdown]. It’s a new and better serializer with powerful features to ensure serialized markdown represents the syntax tree (mdast), no matter what plugins do. Extensions to it work differently: see for example [`mdast-util-footnote`][to-markdown-footnote]. * change: `commonmark` is no longer an option, it’s the default * change: `emphasis` now defaults to `*` * change: `bullet` now defaults to `*` * move: `gfm` is no longer an option — moved to `remark-gfm` * move: `tableCellPadding` — moved to `remark-gfm` * move: `tablePipeAlign` — moved to `remark-gfm` * move: `stringLength` — moved to `remark-gfm` * remove: `pedantic` is no longer an option — this legacy and buggy flavor of markdown is no longer widely used * remove: `entities` is no longer an option — with CommonMark there is almost never a need to use character references, as character escapes are preferred * new: `quote` — you can now prefer single quotes (`'`) over double quotes (`"`) in titles All of these are for CommonMark compatibility. Most of them are inconsequential. * **notable**: references (as in, links `[text][id]` and images `![alt][id]`) are no longer present as such in the syntax tree if they don’t have a corresponding definition (`[id]: example.com`). The reason for this is that CommonMark requires `[text *emphasis start][undefined] emphasis end*` to be emphasis. * **notable**: it is no longer possible to use two blank lines between two lists or a list and indented code. CommonMark prohibits it. For a solution, use an empty comment to end lists (`<!---->`) * inconsequential: whitespace at the start and end of lines in paragraphs is now ignored * inconsequential: `<mailto:foobarbaz>` are now correctly parsed, and the scheme is part of the tree * inconsequential: indented code can now follow a block quote w/o blank line * inconsequential: trailing indented blank lines after indented code are no longer part of that code * inconsequential: character references and escapes are no longer present as separate text nodes * inconsequential: character references which HTML allows but CommonMark doesn’t, such as `©` w/o the semicolon, are no longer recognized * inconsequential: the `indent` field is no longer available on `position` * fix: multiline setext headings * fix: lazy lists * fix: attention (emphasis, strong) * fix: tabs * fix: empty alt on images is now present as an empty string * …plus a ton of other minor previous differences from CommonMark * get folks to use this and report problems! * make `remark-gfm` * start making next branches for plugins * get types into {from,to}-markdown and use them here Closes GH-218. Closes GH-306. Closes GH-315. Closes GH-324. Closes GH-398. Closes GH-402. Closes GH-407. Closes GH-439. Closes GH-450. Closes GH-459. Closes GH-493. Closes GH-494. Closes GH-497. Closes GH-504. Closes GH-517. Closes GH-521. Closes GH-523. Closes remarkjs/remark-lint#111. [micromark]: https://github.com/micromark/micromark [from-markdown]: https://github.com/syntax-tree/mdast-util-from-markdown [to-markdown]: https://github.com/syntax-tree/mdast-util-to-markdown [micromark-footnote]: https://github.com/micromark/micromark-extension-footnote/blob/main/index.js [to-markdown-footnote]: https://github.com/syntax-tree/mdast-util-footnote/blob/main/to-markdown.js [from-markdown-footnote]: https://github.com/syntax-tree/mdast-util-footnote/blob/main/from-markdown.js [mdast]: https://github.com/syntax-tree/mdast
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