> Well no, but "Markdown" is also a standard with more implementations you can shake a stick at This ubiquity comes in large part from its lineage. Gruber base

> Well no, but "Markdown" is also a standard with more implementations you can shake a stick at This ubiquity comes in large part from its lineage. Gruber based Markdown on the established cultural standards in raw text emails. The people who quickly adopted it where doing so based on familiarity.