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by geraldbauer 3253 days ago
I've started work on an evolved markdown version called text with instructions (.texti) [1]. Anyways, what's broken in markdown? The image links are ugly e.g. ![](fail.gif). Why not {{pic.gif}}? Almost everybody incl. Wikipedia markup is using = for headings e.g. =Heading 1=. Why not also in Markdown? Another good reason is that # is the "universal" comment marker in the unix world. If you mix and match yaml front matter / back matter (meta data) with comments - why not use the same comments? Did you know - there are no comments in markdown. And so on and so on. It's time to fix (evolve) markdown. Cheers.

[1] More at -> https://texti.github.io