Thanks for your feedback Lex. It's great to hear from you. I'm definitely
excited about the challenges that lie ahead.

I do want to clarify something hopefully to your delight.

> But I do dislike the current effective removal of two line headers by
> making them signal old syntax, without even a deprecation period.
>
> I really *HATE* the one line syntax, having to *COUNT* f-ing equals
> all the time :(  When I can just recognise two line titles.  I don't
> care if the syntax is hard for the processor, thats its problem, I'm
> reading the stuff all the time as I'm writing and its a pain to count.

We haven't removed two line titles in Asciidoctor & will continue to
support them, at least in compatibility mode. In 1.5.0, they work even when
compat-mode is not set.

As I'm sure you're aware, we just haven't documented them. We believe it's
better for writers to type less and easier to teach the single-line form.

Having said that, this will clearly be an important and tricky conversation
for the standard. I can already think of ways to define the spec so it
doesn't have the alignment problems with multibyte chars & variable-width
fonts in the current implementation. I'm ready to keep my mind open.

The reason I'm keeping my mind open about headings & other syntax is
because I understand that comfort with the syntax is important to the
author's writing process. It's one of the main reasons AsciiDoc is gaining
on Markdown. We can't make everyone happy, so it's a give & take. What we
want is to achieve something with which any reasonable writer feels
comfortable.

Cheers!

-Dan

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