where is a list of markdown tags supported by redcarpet gem

Question

Is there is list of the markdown tags supported by the redcarpet gem?

For example, some markdown implementations support centering text, some don't. Rather than trial and error experimentation, it seems like such a popular gem would be documented somewhere?

Answer 1

I don't think redcarpet is responsible for the markdown - it's simply a renderer; it uses some libraries to interpret the required code

After some research, it seems all of the markdown interpreters are originally based on the UpSkirt library, which was derived from this Daring Fireball project:

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

Thus, “Markdown” is two things: (1) a plain text formatting syntax; and (2) a software tool, written in Perl, that converts the plain text formatting to HTML. See the Syntax page for details pertaining to Markdown’s formatting syntax. You can try it out, right now, using the online Dingus.

You can find the sytnax here