> if you write all of your pages in HTML, then they're going to stay HTML unless you invest the effort in writing a parser+translator that converts all of your

> if you write all of your pages in HTML, then they're going to stay HTML unless you invest the effort in writing a parser+translator that converts all of your content into Markdown or Wikitext or whatever else you might want to migrate that content into. The designed virtue of Markdown is its ease of authoring; why would you want to convert to it? It's surely easier to convert directly from HTML to whatever other format you want than from Markdown to that format.