[cdchn]

At that point, why aren't you just writing HTML?

[dannyobrien]

Markdown is really just a way of making the average, text, bit of HTML a little bit easier to read and write. Even when you're including some HTML in it, it still has that advantage over raw HTML.

[fragmede]

<p>because, it is <i>really</i> awkward</p>

[cdchn]

All the hoops you have to jump through with Markdown seem more awkward to me than a few extra characters.

[fragmede]

but you jump through those hoops during setup, vs seven extra characters every paragraph

[cdchn]

But then you just end up writing HTML anyways.

[fragmede]

the output is html, but when you're writing markdown thought flows to output more seamlessly, with fewer characters vs with having to close italics with the more awkward </i>. yeah in the end that goes through a tool and it outputs html, but it's about when I'm trying to get the ideas out of my head and onto the page.