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<ludocode>Thanks so much for looking at the re2c bootstrap @stikonas. It's something that's been bugging me for a while <ludocode>I've been wanting to bootstrap cmark to be able to build a documentation pipeline that could convert from markdown, but I didn't want to use something that wasn't bootstrappable <Googulator>Update on the Azure Linux bootstrap: the current version of the gist now yields a VHDX that, after some massaging of the included grub.cfg, boots in a VM to a login prompt. There's no valid user as of now, but the login prompt can be bypassed using init=/bin/sh (obviously bypassing a lot of systemd services as a side effect). <Googulator>Hopefully this will be sufficient for building a second stage in a "proper" (Azure Linux-derived) environment, which should yield a fully working image - unfortunately the image currently generated includes no toolchain, but that shouldn't be hard to remedy. <lanodan>For documentation in markdown did you look at lowdown, discount, scdoc (markdown-ish only for manpages)? <ludocode>Thanks, I hadn't seen those tools before. lowdown is pretty close to what I want, but it doesn't seem to fully support commonmark yet. It would probably do the job though, I'll spend some time experimenting with it <ludocode>discount is HTML only and scdoc is man only. I'd prefer output for both html and roff from a single tool. And neither of them support commonmark, in fact scdoc doesn't claim markdown compatibility but a markdown inspired format tailored for man pages