[koheripbal]

What's that advantage of using markdown? html is far more expansive in visual options.

Not Everything needs to be markdown.

[Yoric]

I largely prefer writing my slides in Markdown, for the same reason that I prefer writing (a first draft of) my letters in Markdown rather than in a word processor: this helps me focus on the content first, rather than the presentation.

YMMV

[perlgeek]

Some things are just far less typing in markdown than in HTML, for example lists of bullet points and inline code.

[macintux]

Only “some” things?

[koheripbal]

...but then you're just using the wrong editor.