| markdown can indeed work "good enough" for books. assuming you're using one of the extended flavors. but once it comes to the repurposing of your text,
switching to another flavor (for many good reasons)
will cause _many_ undesirable wrinkles to appear,
with a lot of them being rather difficult to find. you might think this is a problem you'll never face.
i hope, for your sake, that you are right about that. but don't say that you weren't warned. because the experience is unhappy, and tedious. and not what you'd expect from a "plain-text" format. the _idea_ for markdown (which, by the way, should be
credited to ian feldman, with a follow-on by dean allen)
is spot-on. but the gruber realization is short-sighted.
(and, alas, stubbornly so, for absolutely no good reason.) |