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It's used by millions of academics because it is literally the best option, warts and all. Markdown is vastly under-powered for a lot of things people need to
by ska 5y ago
It's used by millions of academics because it is literally the best option, warts and all.
Markdown is vastly under-powered for a lot of things people need to do. Word is a hot mess for the same. Etc. etc.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoReST has TeX level of power and it's internal data structure maps mostly 1:1 onto DocBook if the native output capabilities of docutils aren't good enough. It's a shame Markdown took over the mindshare for ASCII markup.