The point of Markdown is to be legible as plain text, without being run through a rendering engine. Rendering engines are a bonus, but not required. Based on th

The point of Markdown is to be legible as plain text, without being run through a rendering engine. Rendering engines are a bonus, but not required. Based on the samples shared, ASCII Doc is hard to read without a renderer (just like HTML). I appreciate being able to use a simple, well thought out set of conventions to facilitate writing in plain text files. Markdown isn’t perfect, but it helps make plain text documents a little more readable, especially when dealing with hyperlinks.