Markless is an open document markup standard specified at

https://shirakumo.org/docs/markless

Reference implementations of full parsers, a test suite, sample
documents, and more can be found on the same page.

This lexer implements a simpler version of Markless without maintaining
the standard component and directive stack. It also does not distinguish
every possible component type in Markless, as Pygments/Chroma's types
lack appropriate markers.

Nevertheless the lexer is useful enough to properly mark up syntax
constructs in Markless documents, especially aiding in distinguishing
syntactical elements from actual textual content at a glance.

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The lexer also does not properly handle nesting, as I don't think
Pygments/Chroma is capable of that, at least as far as I could tell from
the documentation and other parsers? If I'm wrong, please let me know
how I can deal with, for example, the following:

```
# foo **//bar//**
```

Wherein *the entire line should be "GenericHeading"*, `# `, `**`, and
`//` should be "Keyword" and `bar` should be both "GenericStrong" and
"GenericEmph".

Also please let me know if you'd rather have an XML version of the
parser. I found the Go version easier to write, so that's what I did.
However, I can also transcribe it into XML if necessary.

Thanks a lot for all your work on Chroma!

Previously it would always require the WASM module, requiring a full WASM compile cycle.

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