I think the biggest problem with Markdown is that the spec is ambiguous and there’s no clearly prevailing standard. Jeff Atwood tried to fix this, but the crea

I think the biggest problem with Markdown is that the spec is ambiguous and there’s no clearly prevailing standard. Jeff Atwood tried to fix this, but the creator of Markdown does not seem keen to cooperate with any attempts to standardize it.[1] Since he owns the trademark, standardization will likely be impossible without his cooperation. Not to come down on John Gruber, I understand his position and he’s a cool cat... it’s just an unfortunate shortcoming of markdown, which I otherwise love. With the exception of ordered lists. I can never figure out how to get multiple paragraphs or interstitial content into ordered lists, and it always resets the counter to 1... but everything else is great! [1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-common-markdown/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...