To quote from the source[1]: > The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-f

To quote from the source[1]: > The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions Which is appealing to me, and many others I suspect. [1]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/