Comment by krrrh

I was at a conference last year where @patio11 performed a rap trying to persuade people to do all their writing in markdown. I wish I could simply link to it as an argument from authority, but consider the value of doing your writing in plaintext. You will benefit from editor choice, flexible tooling, version control, and forward compatibility. There are a lot of tools out there for "compiling" from markdown to a nicely formatted pdf, rtf, docx, or odt file.

I've got a pile of inaccessibile old university papers that for some reason are in Aldus Pagemaker format.

Edit: typo