The "Standard" dialect is plain Markdown as defined by John Gruber
(<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>) and as implemented by Dingus
(<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/dingus>).
This is the default dialect, so you do not need to ask for it explicitly.
DEVIATIONS
The Standard dialect as implemented by Markdent differs from Dingus in a few ways:
• HTML attribute quote delimiters are not preserved, so a single quote may be converted into a double
quote.
• Whitespace on an empty line in a code block is preserved by Markdent, but not by Dingus.
• Markdent will not generate bad HTML from Markdown markup. Markdent does not allow unbalanced markup
events to propagate, and will turn unbalanced events into plain text.
Here is an example:
*em **strong* wtf**
Dingus turns this into:
<p><em>em <strong>strong</em> wtf</strong></p>
Markdent's HTML output for the same:
<p><em>em **strong</em> wtf**</p>
Note that with inline HTML, Markdent echoes it more or less as-is, so you can still produce bad HTML
with Markdent.