> I'm tired of Markdown hacks to try to justify not using Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Every kind of functionality you can imagine already exists in open form

> I'm tired of Markdown hacks to try to justify not using Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. Every kind of functionality you can imagine already exists in open formats with powerful programs designed to make it easy for you to compose rich documents. For the love of god, use them. > Yeah, those large documents don't work well with Git and other line-by-line diff systems. That doesn't mean line-by-line is better, it means we're too lazy to build a better version control system. Our tools should adapt to us, not the other way around! I've used (and still use) all those tools. Our tools shouldn't adapt to Office applications, because Office applications can't even adapt to themselves! Anyone who has ever tried to copy/paste even between Microsoft applications knows the pain and headaches involved. There is no way you'd be able to offer clean diffs for all that garbage. The reason pure text editors are popular is because we've known this for a long time.