> It is not possible to render it properly or have support for it beyond showing plain text. Sure you can, and indeed that's what markdown was originally suppo

> It is not possible to render it properly or have support for it beyond showing plain text. Sure you can, and indeed that's what markdown was originally supposed to do (at least as it was first described to me). The catch is that you have to treat the plain text as the authoritative version: you do not edit the plain text in order to produce changes in the rendered document; you edit the plain text for it's own sake, without considering the effect on the rendered version, and the rendered version is derived from that.