There's an easy compromise between (1) and (2): configurable bleaching. I also use markdown for writing blog posts, and have a lot of the same pain points. I h

There's an easy compromise between (1) and (2): configurable bleaching. I also use markdown for writing blog posts, and have a lot of the same pain points. I have been working on an extended version of markdown (https://github.com/alexbecker/blogdown https://github.com/alexbecker/blogdown) to fix this.