Discount is a C implementation of Markdown, and Markdown a text-to-HTML converter written in Perl. They are pretty similar but different in the following behaviours
- Discount will replace double quote
""with“”and single and double quote'with’. Where Markdown will keep the single and double quote as-is. - To have a second level indentation on bullet points, Discount require two spaces, where Markdown only require one.
Double-quote and single quote
Discount will replace double and single quote and try to make it pretty
Markdown – HTML in a browser
"I'd like to thank you for what you did for me."
Discount – HTML in a browser
“I’d like to thank you for what you did for me.”
Discount – HTML source
“I’d like to thank you for what you did for me.”
Bullet point indentation
Markdown requires only one space for multi-level indentation.
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2
Discount requires at least two spaces for multi-level indentation, otherwise, it will be treated as a single level.
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2
Appendix
The test was done on the Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic) with the following version installed.
Markdown 1.0.1 by John Gruber
||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================-==========-=============-============================================================== ii markdown 1.0.1-10 all Text-to-HTML conversion tool
Discount 2.2.3 by David Parsons
||/ Name Version Architecture Description +++-===================-==========-=============-============================================================== ii discount 2.2.3b8-2 amd64 implementation of the Markdown markup language in C ii libmarkdown2:amd64 2.2.3b8-2 amd64 implementation of the Markdown markup language in C (library)