Markdown is a document authoring format, and is intended to convert to many different formats. When presented with a file full of markdown, what format did you

Markdown is a document authoring format, and is intended to convert to many different formats. When presented with a file full of markdown, what format did you want that in? A webpage? PDF? Something else? Once that format is chosen, markdown doesn't have any way to control that presentation. Black text on white? Opposite? Something else? How wide should paragraphs be? There's also several extensions to markdown, each with their own features and subtle edge cases. You mentioned smaller files, but HTML is nearly as small after gzip/brotli, which your web server should be using for text-based resources anyway.