I'm afraid I'll have to be one of the curmudgeonly naysayers, too. The nice thing about Markdown is that the source file is just as readable as the output. Ham

I'm afraid I'll have to be one of the curmudgeonly naysayers, too. The nice thing about Markdown is that the source file is just as readable as the output. Haml and hamdown fail at this. If I'm gonna have a computer parse "%h2.f2.helvetica.strike" for me, it might as well handle an entire HTML document. Think of Markdown as a WYSIWYG format. The plaintext is the document, but there just happen to exist tools for automatically displaying it as HTML too. If something looks wrong as plaintext Markdown, you're doing Markdown wrong.