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by Terretta 207 days ago
> The whole point of choosing Markdown is that you do not want to spend your time typing <p>, <a>, <li> and the rest. You want to write in Markdown, with only occasional HTML when absolutely necessary.

Why is that a problem?

> If the solution to Markdown's limitations is routinely switching to HTML, then...

Why would you do that, instead of only switching if you had to?

Why would the alternative be "just HTML" and write all the nonsense you said one doesn't have to?