Replying to Avatar Nathan Day

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.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 11mo ago

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

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Silberengel 11mo ago

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.