What are the differences between the pandoc Markdown output formats?

[chicks-net]

Pandoc supports a wide variety of Markdown output formats, but I haven't been able to find any documentation to say what is different about them. Why would I choose one over the other? My tests haven't revealed anything obviously different in the results, but maybe my test data is really boring.

% pandoc --list-output-formats | egrep '(mark|gfm)'
commonmark
commonmark_x
gfm
markdown
markdown_github
markdown_mmd
markdown_phpextra
markdown_strict
markua

I'm not concerned about conforming to any particular standard. The goal is to process these files using hugo.

[alerque]

Besides the Pandoc documentation of each of these, it is trivial to find documentation of each:

• https://commonmark.org/
• https://github.github.com/gfm/
• https://fletcher.github.io/MultiMarkdown-6/MMD_Users_Guide.html
• https://michelf.ca/projects/php-markdown/extra/
• https://markua.com/

Obviously what you want is whatever variant Hugo understands best. LMGTFY.

By default, Hugo uses the Goldmark Markdown processor which is fully CommonMark-compliant.

So it looks like using commonmark will be your best bet.

[chicks-net]

Thank you for answering this for my use case. I'm unblocked for my current project.

Are there any release notes for these output formats?