>Markdown is about a bare-minimum amount of styling that is just as readable and at home in plaintext as formatted in HTML.
My gripe is that it really isn't. Because markdown inevitable includes images or something and the instant it does it doesn't hold up to it's killer feature. Now you can't read it properly, so now you have to find a generated version, or hunt down the images manually, or generate the output yourself.
Alternatively, the document is so trivial that even markdown formatting is too much (just distracts) and doesn't add anything of value.
It isn't that bad, it just never seems to make any sense for files. It does make sense for web forms though but that's only because you never read the markdown, you just write it and the output is generated on the fly.
My gripe is that it really isn't. Because markdown inevitable includes images or something and the instant it does it doesn't hold up to it's killer feature. Now you can't read it properly, so now you have to find a generated version, or hunt down the images manually, or generate the output yourself.
Alternatively, the document is so trivial that even markdown formatting is too much (just distracts) and doesn't add anything of value.
It isn't that bad, it just never seems to make any sense for files. It does make sense for web forms though but that's only because you never read the markdown, you just write it and the output is generated on the fly.