# Standard Flavored Markdown

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**Created:** [September 3, 2014, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/standard-flavored-markdown/2382 "2014-09-03T19:06:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 4, 2014, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.codinghorror.com/t/standard-flavored-markdown/2382/16 "2014-09-04T13:14:03Z")

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Interesting. For some time now I’ve been toying with the idea of making a project for community-sourced, uncopyrighted books for schools. The current situation in the school book market (expensive, paper-only, teachers may not copy, etc) is simply disappointing. But I could not figure out what format would be the easiest to use. I considered LaTeX, since it’s a de-facto standard (and very powerful), but it also has a very steep learning curve. If there would be a good support for all necessary features in a Markdown dialect, that would be awesome. 🙂

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