Yeah, I won't dispute that Markdown's emphasis syntax is a bit more layman-friendly than Quaint's (though there might be a way to hack it in anyway). One import

Yeah, I won't dispute that Markdown's emphasis syntax is a bit more layman-friendly than Quaint's (though there might be a way to hack it in anyway). One important goal with Quaint is syntactic consistency, though, which means some tradeoffs have to be made. I think it could be a nice option for comments or other generic input, though. Some implementations of Markdown can get a bit frustrating when you're trying to do some unusual things like nesting emphasis (though, to be fair, it's often only an implementation problem... I just wish they'd fix it).