Markdown is flawed, no doubt, but the brilliance of it is the resemblance of markdown text to nicely formatted ASCII vs. the suggested alternatives. I agree th

Markdown is flawed, no doubt, but the brilliance of it is the resemblance of markdown text to nicely formatted ASCII vs. the suggested alternatives. I agree that markdown's flaws are significant, but the suggested alternatives don't address them either (except turning off or carefully dealing with inline HTML).