[benrbray]

The CommonMark standard [1] is an attempt to solve this problem, although I don't necessarily agree with all their syntax choies.

For instance, I find the redundancy built in to Markdown to be a misfeature--most Markdown editors don't distinguish between _this_ and this, even though the distinction between underlined and italic text is useful. Don't even get me started on all the different ways to create a heading and the headache it creates when parsing!

[1]: https://commonmark.org/