As others have noted, there is a semantic difference between Markdown and roff. But if you really want to write them in Markdown, you can with ronn: http://rtom

As others have noted, there is a semantic difference between Markdown and roff. But if you really want to write them in Markdown, you can with ronn: http://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ http://rtomayko.github.io/ronn/ Ronn also supports outputting to HTML.