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feat: Support for extended syntax

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Description

Describe your feature request

I love that MarkText allows preferences toggles for pandoc syntax, it would be great to have similar toggles to enable more syntax from the full extended syntax.

What parser does MarkText use under the surface? If it's markdown.it then I know from experience (albeit with their Python package, not JS/Eltrn) that these can be turned on and off by passing booleans to the parser's constructor.

Additional context

I ran into this while trying to create a definition list, if there's any kind of priority list for which aspects of the extended syntax to implement first then count me as one vote for definition lists!

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Research direction

No file, test, or parser entry point is named in the issue; first identify which parser MarkText uses and where the existing Pandoc syntax preferences are wired. Review the full extended-syntax options, starting with definition lists, and clarify which options should be supported and independently toggled before implementation; done means the selected syntax works and its preference behaves consistently.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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