It isn’t a specialized dialect.
It’s a deep introspection on supporting exactly what Markdown was intended to do, but failed to specify with enough accuracy, leaving us to the current situation where this…
# Hello there
This is a paragraph.
- one
- two
- three
- four
1. pirate
2. ninja
3. zombie
… renders out as 15 different outputs from 22 different Markdown parsers.
In fact, one of the design goals was to render “most” Markdown as close to the original intent of the authors as possible.