Markdown is it's own formatting environment! All it needs is a constant-width font, a concept not particularly new to the world of computers. If there were no

Markdown is it's own formatting environment! All it needs is a constant-width font, a concept not particularly new to the world of computers. If there were no downsides to this, and email was build from the first day on to work with HTML, then this would all be fine, but sadly (or not so sadly) this isn't the case.