Comparison
Why not glow
glow is good, and this keeps its flags and its keys so muscle memory carries
over. But rendering the same document through glow 3.0.0 shows what this fixes:
| glow | marquee-markdown |
|---|---|
## Heading — hash marks reach the output |
typography: weight, color, rhythm, a hairline rule |
[!NOTE] printed literally |
an icon-and-title callout in its own hue |
| Tables with no outer frame, columns stretched to the full width | box drawing with a shaded header band, columns sized to content |
Thematic breaks as -------- |
a hairline ─ across the column |
| Long code lines wrap out of the block | they stay sealed inside the card |
| Raw HTML in a README printed tag by tag | interpreted: the title joins the contents pane, badges read as links, an HTML list and an HTML table are drawn like any other |
| Link targets printed inline, interrupting the sentence | link text reads as text; ] walks them, enter opens |
| 2-space margin | a centered reading column, page painted edge to edge |
| No outline, no in-document search | a scroll-tracking contents pane, and / n N |
| Keys hardcoded, cannot be rebound | every key resolves through a rebindable action table |
The last two rows are the ones that made this worth building. The rest are rendering details that add up.