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		legulere on March 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Formal Spec for GitHub Flavored Markdown Yes, if you also want to have more implementations, that can differ in e.g. license or programming language. For instance it is the reason why there's no reimplementation of TeX.

adrianN on March 14, 2017 [–]

There is pdflatex, luatex,...

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