Hi Steve, Steve Izma wrote on Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 04:52:56PM -0400:
> A relatively simple notation like Markdown would also work, I agree with all you are saying except this. The OP is certainly better off writing his documents in proper roff(7) or groff_mom(7) and living with slighly quirky HTML output than writing his documents in markdown and getting crappy output quality in *all* output formats. Converting markdown into acceptable roff input is just not feasible - not only because there is no tool to do it, but also because markdown is just not powerful enough, even if you were willing to write a new program to do that. Besides, i hate the myth being re-iterated that markdown would be easy to use. It is an extremely hostile, hard-to-use language because it doesn't have any kind of consistent syntax, but instead three strongly conflicting ones, so the rules for what any given input means are usually extremely complicated and counter-intuitive, and besides, there is almost no markdown document that is portable because the details of all three syntaxes differ from one implementation to the other, and there is no lack of conflicting implementations. For details why you should never use or recommend markdown as a source language for any documents, see http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20170304230520 Yours, Ingo
