diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 4dffa22..e29ddee 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@
     },
     "suggest": {
         "dflydev/markdown": "~1.0",
-        "erusev/parsedown": "~1.0"
+        "erusev/parsedown": "~1.0",
+        "league/commonmark": "*"
     },
     "extra": {
         "branch-alias": {
diff --git a/src/phpDocumentor/Reflection/DocBlock/Description.php b/src/phpDocumentor/Reflection/DocBlock/Description.php
index ee4f330..0377d62 100644
--- a/src/phpDocumentor/Reflection/DocBlock/Description.php
+++ b/src/phpDocumentor/Reflection/DocBlock/Description.php
@@ -167,6 +167,9 @@ class Description implements \Reflector
         } elseif (class_exists('dflydev\markdown\MarkdownExtraParser')) {
             $markdown = new \dflydev\markdown\MarkdownExtraParser();
             $result = $markdown->transformMarkdown($result);
+        } elseif (class_exists('League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter')) {
+            $markdown = new \League\CommonMark\CommonMarkConverter();
+            $result = $markdown->convertToHtml($result);
         }
 
         return trim($result);