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by stan_rogers 4353 days ago
Show me the part of Markdown (and its kin) that allows me to distinguish why the text is appearing in (or, rather, marked up in a manner that normally translates to) italics or bold (hint: you can't assume stress, and simply holding to current conventins is only good for ephemera). Where do the language tags for foreign words and phrases go? Are asides, callouts and infoboxes really the same things as blockquotes? HTML may not quite be SGML, but it is an awful lot richer than Markdown (and its kin) even if no attention is paid to styling. (I haven't used a class or id whose only purpose was styling in a decade. They either have a relationship to the document structure or they don't exist.)