And in today’s episode of ‘a bad worker always blames their tools’ I will say that Markdown has never been my thing. I vastly prefer HTML which is straightforward, easy, unambiguous. The only thing I think that’s easy in MD is a link.
@artkavanagh Thanks for your post. Somewhat like @Miraz mentioned in her reply post, I find that I don’t do a lot of writing HTML-in-longhand myself. I typically draft in pure plaintext and then come back through to add any needed formatting, mostly either via some sort of toolbar button or regexp (depending on where I’m writing)—or when I’m actually writing HTML for HTML’s sake (a proper web page), in an HTML editor with autocomplete.
I could use Markdown when drafting, but that introduces an extra Markdown->HTML step that I don’t currently have in my process, and the time it might save is probably counteracted by the addition of an extra conversion+tweaking step. (I suspect if my process weren’t rooted in the fact I’ve been writing HTML since the 1990s, starting with Markdown would have felt more natural :-) ) // @macgenie @adders @decarbonization @Bruce