> Sometimes I need more flexible layout of fonts and graphics That’s the key. For much of my writing, all I need is text with a little formatting, and markdown

> Sometimes I need more flexible layout of fonts and graphics That’s the key. For much of my writing, all I need is text with a little formatting, and markdown is great for that as a user. (It’s less nice if you’re writing a parser, but that hasn’t come up for me yet :) ) For some of my writing I need professional-grade layout. There I either use LaTeX directly, or I use pandoc then LaTeX. But sometimes I need to: - Include images that don’t have a public URL - Use more than one font - Have a recipient be able to edit the document - And the recipient isn’t a developer Markdown doesn’t check all of those boxes. Word files do (as do Google Docs links, ODF files, and some others). Markdown is great, but it’s not enough all of the time.