> post above and tell me how the Asciidoc ordered list using . and .. is more readable It isn't - the point is that asciidoc has a 'spec' whereas markdown has

> post above and tell me how the Asciidoc ordered list using . and .. is more readable It isn't - the point is that asciidoc has a 'spec' whereas markdown has dialects because it's not rigourously specified (core or extensions). Which one you might run into is the luck of the draw. Should you try to improve markdown (and lots of people have), you end up with the N+1 standards problem (famous xkcd cartoon) and further fragmenting the implementation if at all it takes off. Getting one 'Markdown' that has features (and extensions) that work properly wherever you go isn't a technical problem . It's a problem created by the lack of a spec in the first place and IMO pretty much unsolvable now.