[icebraining]

Well, apparently pandoc can convert Markdown into groff. I don't know if it's troff compatible or if it has diverged, though.

[kickingvegas]

Actually, I'm more concerned with the Markdown syntax and not about how pandoc (nice tool btw) converts it. The issue I see is unchecked feature creep, especially with the variants of markdown we're starting to see.

Reluctantly, I agree that plain text documents are the way to go. I used to be a FrameMaker user.