Strictly speaking, that isn't the problem being solved by Markdown, either. Remember that Daring Fireball does not have comments, so this isn't a concern. Mark

Strictly speaking, that isn't the problem being solved by Markdown, either. Remember that Daring Fireball does not have comments, so this isn't a concern. Markdown was something originally created to solve an authorial problem, not something for forum creators to use for comments. It's flexible enough to do that, but it isn't the purpose of Markdown.