asciidoc support would require an ansciidoc renderer written in javascript, which does seem to exist[1](although I haven't used it). This also highlights some o

asciidoc support would require an ansciidoc renderer written in javascript, which does seem to exist[1](although I haven't used it). This also highlights some of the problems with markdown because it is an insufficiently rich language for generating semantically meaningful markup for use-cases beyond blogging. There has been some really interesting work on "scholarly markdown"[2][3], but given the social and technical complexities of markdown implementations and the community[4] seems like adding asciidoc is easier than fixing markdown. [1] http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/05/21/asciidoctor-js-render-asciidoc-in-the-browser/ http://asciidoctor.org/news/2013/05/21/asciidoctor-js-render... [2]https://github.com/scholmd/scholmd/wiki https://github.com/scholmd/scholmd/wiki [3]http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/06/19/citations-in-scholarly-markdown/ http://blog.martinfenner.org/2013/06/19/citations-in-scholar... [4]http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markd...