i see, so the spec doesn't have an opinion about short form having markup and i'm just having trouble trying to understand why rendering if found would be a problem.

i've been writing every length of form in markdown for a long time and have been wishing since at least 2016 that it was just a standard thing to *italicise* and **bold** and _underline_ and

- make

- lists

and quote things

that are probably from a terminal

because i am constantly needing all these things.

i don't use headings so much, that's more of a structured long form document, and for those, it's been a really long road to table of contents showing the outline to be normally available somewhere (github now puts them at the top of a markdown document rendering.

i'm keeping my ear open to hear about when markdown formatting comes to short form messages because, it predates even 2015, actually, once upon a time before markdown there was bbcode.

it was the silos that siloed users away from this.