There's just so much support for Markdown at this point, I've just bit the bullet and used it. RemarkJS has a bunch of plugins, so if you know enough to wire it together it's relatively simple to get decent results customized to your needs. It separates the input from the output and uses a real AST, so maybe it might spur some new ideas for some sort of text+ spec that could be adopted.
The idea of Markdown isn't bad - separate the writing from the design. It's just horribly designed. I'd actually love to see a basic rich text document format based on a very strict subset of HTML with no JS, extremely limited CSS and basic tags - created for reading and writing, unlike most web pages - but still compatible with the full spec. Like an editable ePub or mobi format.
For anyone who happens upon this later, after finishing the resume, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out the CSS printing rules for page breaks don't work with CSS grid, making printing a PDF a nightmare.
The idea of Markdown isn't bad - separate the writing from the design. It's just horribly designed. I'd actually love to see a basic rich text document format based on a very strict subset of HTML with no JS, extremely limited CSS and basic tags - created for reading and writing, unlike most web pages - but still compatible with the full spec. Like an editable ePub or mobi format.
For anyone who happens upon this later, after finishing the resume, I was unpleasantly surprised to find out the CSS printing rules for page breaks don't work with CSS grid, making printing a PDF a nightmare.