# README
Parsers and renderers
In the beginning, mdrip had its own custom
markdown parser and its own custom markdown renderer.
As fun as that was, time passed and folks created many extensions to markdown; tables of contents, mermaid diagrams, etc.
Both parsing and rendering have gotten better dedicated parsers
and renders with plugin architectures, exceeding the capabilities
of the parser and renderer builtin to mdrip.
So the original parser and renderer was retired, to be replaced by one or both of these:
The MdParserRenderer interface was defined - an mdrip-specific
interface. The idea was to slap an adapter over each of these two
packages allowing them to implement this interface. Then provide
an mdrip command line flag to pick one of the two implementations
at run time and inject it.
Work began on adapting gomarkdown/markdown to the interface,
but paused when it became clear that yuin/goldmark was working fine.
Keeping this arrangement for a while, just in case it becomes
desirable to try gomarkdown/markdown again.