Asciidoc was originally designed to be directly translatable into Docbook XML, and thus slot into a Docbook-based production system. So it covers a lot more gro

Asciidoc was originally designed to be directly translatable into Docbook XML, and thus slot into a Docbook-based production system. So it covers a lot more ground than MD was originally intended to. There's also rst, which was developed with documentation in mind.