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By abstracting to the extent that the author has it should be simple to add other syntaxes to the library (e.g. rST -> HTML)

Yes, but project is called CommonMark, so it's markdown only.

I appreciate that, we argued to death on the League internals about the focus of the package:

rST > HTML is less likely, but CommonMark > PDF could definitely be a thing.