So it seems... Thanks a lot for the heads up. I'll schedule this for deletion.
pandoc DOES indeed have its own particular extensions for Markdown that are different from Markdown Extra and PHPMarkdown and the others. does that not make it a markdown flavor?
sure it can ALSO be a tool to export to other formats but that's besides the point
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/wiki/Pandoc-vs-Multimarkdown
and from their page: "Pandoc’s enhanced version of Markdown includes syntax for footnotes, tables, flexible ordered lists, definition lists, fenced code blocks, superscripts and subscripts, strikeout, metadata blocks, automatic tables of contents, embedded LaTeX math, citations, and Markdown inside HTML block elements. (These enhancements, described below under Pandoc’s Markdown, can be disabled using the markdown_strict input or output format.)"
Yeah, you are correct. I missed it when I checked out the homepage of pandoc. I also edited the title of the option to "Pandoc's markdown". Thanks!
This is a great tool, yes, but it's not a markdown flavor.