Furthermore, wouldn't a Markdown document be a bit better as opposed to Word? That way, you or anyone else could easily search through its contents alongside th

Furthermore, wouldn't a Markdown document be a bit better as opposed to Word? That way, you or anyone else could easily search through its contents alongside the rest of the codebase, were it to be included in the repository, whereas that wouldn't work with Word, because it's a proprietary and binary format (unless you open that file in particular).