Creating a custom markdown format variant for the web

Markdown is great. It's really easy to pick up and there's tons of libraries out there that will do the parsing for you. But if you want behavior tailored perfectly to your liking, there's really no other way than to make your own parser. Luckily, building one is really not that hard. You'll likely spend more time looking up the specifications than actually writing code. Plus, it's a strong project to show in your portfolio, and by the end of it, you can even add it to your website so 4 people can read how you