“A text-to-HTML conversion tool” with the “overriding design goal” of “[making] it as readable as possible”. You wrote: > Markdown was meant to be rendered, n

“A text-to-HTML conversion tool” with the “overriding design goal” of “[making] it as readable as possible”. You wrote: > Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext Then the overriding design goal would not be to make it “as readable as possible” in its “raw” form (because what would be the point of that?). So this is clearly a falsehood. Markdown was meant to be readable as-is. Meaning that you could read it as-is or render it. At your leisure. Also literally your words: > was meant to be a lightweight way With the overriding goal of making it “as readable as possible”. Keyword “override”. Which means that it takes precedence over being “lightweight”. Then you literally wrote: > that it wasn't meant to be rendered as HTML. Clearly a falsehood or a strawman as I only emphasized the “overriding design goal”. Markdown was supposed to be able to be rendered as HTML… and to be readable as-is. The part that you were wrong about was this: > Markdown was meant to be rendered, not left as plaintext It was designed to be readable as plaintext as well… so this assertion of yours is false since it implies that plaintext readability was not a consideration. But it was in fact the primary design goal when making the syntax. I hope this clears things up.