Comparison

Why not glow

The same document rendered by glow on the left and marquee-markdown on the right
The same document rendered by glow on the left and marquee-markdown on the right

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.