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Understanding the supported Markdown variant

JT
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September 23, 2025

I really like that Markdown is the format of choice when publishing content -- it's a natural fit for a lot of the work I do, and it's well understood by LLMs.

One sticking point for me though is that it's unclear which flavour of Markdown is supported; i.e. CommonMark GH flavoured (it's a long list).

For example, what link syntax is supported? Empirically it seems like the [text](link) style is the only one: reference links and footnotes aren't.

Likewise, using an `<a name="foo">` style link doesn't create a Confluence anchor.

I realise that there's a significant mismatch between the Atlassian Document Format and Markdown, but regardless it would be great to have some clearer understanding what to expect.

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