That was my experience.
Injected some simple HTML for formatting and that was then butchered in different ways by different clients.
I love markdown for notes, wikis, etc. but for anything that needs to look pretty it falls short imo.
We're not going to kill Medium with Markdown.
yeah, i'm 100% in support of asciidoc as the preferred format, it's a complete and sane syntax... i'd describe it as being like the PostScript of graphical text rendering, and of course it can flatten down to paper as well, i think it does it even better than html as used in epub
i can't see myself printing stuff very much, and if any, it would have to be laser or dye sub for durability, but this is a nice feature
Yes, it's designed specifically to generate e-books (hence the sectioning and doc metadata structure with author, version, etc.), but allows you to have the middle step of rendering as HTML. Very elegant solution, IMO.
I hate Markdown for wikis. I tend to write academic wiki articles and THE TABLE FORMATTING FROM HELL HAUNTS MY DREAMS. 😱😅
Lots of wiki pages contain tables that are actually images, and I totally get it.
Of course, then you can't resize those images, or determine the horizontal placement, so it's just moving from one problem to the next.
