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by Sean1708 2424 days ago
> which is a variant of Markdown (or perhaps vice-versa)

Neither, AsciiDoc has similar design goals to Markdown but it's a completely separate markup language. I like to explain AsciiDoc as a markup language that sits somewhere between Markdown and LaTeX, it handles far more things than Markdown (and is therefore more complex) but isn't nearly as complex as LaTeX (but also doesn't handle nearly as many things).