Markdown is pretty great, I would even say the idea is genius. however markdown is a terrible markup language, it completely fails to add any sort of semantic m

Markdown is pretty great, I would even say the idea is genius. however markdown is a terrible markup language, it completely fails to add any sort of semantic meaning to the text. So people keep trying to add the semantic bits onto markdown, a process which I would argue destroys the genius of markdown in the first place. Markdown is intended to be a nice looking text document. with strict limits on the format so that it can be transformed into a nice looking typeset document. If your base text document does not look great, you are doing markdown wrong. You would be better off with an actual markup language. This is also why I think markdown editors are wrong. again the whole point of markdown is to have a great looking text document, a text editor is perfect for this, any other specialized editor will produce a bad looking document.