I know this doesn't solve your problem directly, but I recommend people to try out Djot[0], a markup language from the author of CommonMark. Djot has a single

I know this doesn't solve your problem directly, but I recommend people to try out Djot[0], a markup language from the author of CommonMark. Djot has a single well-defined spec, and most of the basic formatting has the same syntax as (a) Markdown, so switching is pretty painless. It has as a main goal to be legible and visually aesthetic as-is, just like Markdown. What Djot adds is its _predictability_. Nested formatting, precedence order, line breaks behavior, nested blocks, mixed inline and block formatting, custom attributes are all laid out precisely in the spec in a thought-out manner. Till this day I still can't remember how to put line break within a list item in Markdown (and I'm sure there're more than one way). [0]: https://djot.net/ https://djot.net/