@matdevdug Of late, slowly I am getting more convinced to embrace Markdown again. I hate that rich text editors of nowadays serialize to Markdown, and to that from many WYSIWYG/WYSIWYM ones of them I can expect effectively “sanitizing” my HTML or even just odd parts, so I just can’t have the Preview as I type. The way Markdown handles paragraphs and line-breaks is ever uncomfortable to me. And how much complexity and pit-falls there is. But maybe we indeed just can’t get anything better, and have to resort to treating Markdown as an intermediate format sometimes even in our automation, feeling glad about what could have been and won’t be was Markdown to get more severely fragmented than it is.

Hi! I guessed you would be on Fediverse — I used a search engine with “matduggan mastodon” to find this as a comment section.

@matdevdug I love markdown too! You almost touched on an aspect I really like: Accessibility. The author does not dictate how the text is presented (except some small things like headers and lists). The reader chooses the most comfortable way for them to view it. They may not want to read your work as a series of white rectangles; or perhaps there is a font or colour that is easier for them to read.

Now what may be lost though is creative writing where the precise formatting is a big part of the art. But other than that I like the markdown way. Maybe some graphical editor for some subset of HTML could be invented to get more formatting.

(and I'll also include my silly flowchart regarding text processing formats)