[quanticle]

The only quibble I have with Markdown is that it shows its web-oriented origins by making it difficult to insert page breaks. That's largely the reason I still use LaTeX for a lot of things. Other than that, though, I fully agree with the author. Plain text is great because 1) it'll always be readable and 2) it forces you to focus on the writing first and the formatting second.

[fiddlosopher]

In pandoc you can just use `\newpage`. This will create a page break in LaTeX/PDF output but be ignored in other formats, such as HTML.

[masklinn]

> The only quibble I have with Markdown is that it shows its web-oriented origins by making it difficult to insert page breaks.

I'm not sure it's got to do with web-orientation, reStructuredText has targetted a number of builders from the start, yet does not have a native pagebreak directive (you either need to use an extension, or use raw passthrough to the latex builder)