I thinks a nice idea. This is great for programmers, most of whom already understand markdown. However, based on my experience, if you need to get wide spread

I thinks a nice idea. This is great for programmers, most of whom already understand markdown. However, based on my experience, if you need to get wide spread adoption, it has to be simpler that MS Word. Why? Because most authors are used to that. It will be the first point of comparison. My $0.02