I'm not particularly a markdown enthusiast, but most of these gripes make no sense. Remembering whether more pound signs make a header bigger is no different th

I'm not particularly a markdown enthusiast, but most of these gripes make no sense. Remembering whether more pound signs make a header bigger is no different than remembering whether <h1> is bigger than <h3>, and double-byte characters don't affect markdown any differently than they do HTML, etc. And for the "will my PC blow up if I use the wrong number of characters?", you're referring to a rule that accepts any number of characters. All that's going on here is that you're used to one syntax, and not to the other. If one is used to both, markdown is quite nice. Also: > Am I the only one that actually wrote a script to convert HTML to Markdown just so I can create those silly README.md files without having to remember some awfully inconsistent syntax? HTML is valid markdown - you can just use <b> and <h3> and so on, there's no need to convert them to markdown equivalents.