On Wed, 19 Aug 2015, James Carlson wrote:
I can see why MarkDown would be a good idea for an unimportant document that can be rewritten later -- it's a rather minimal set of mark-up -- but it doesn't seem helpful for something non-trivial that should be rendered and displayed in a pretty form for the majority of readers.
TeX, by contrast, has longevity and high flexibility.
Indeed, I like TeX (well, LaTeX, well actually I use Lyx mostly as friendly front-end to LaTeX ;) ). But... TeX looks alien enough to put some off.
Note that MarkDown maps nicely onto a small subset of TeX, and so tools like 'pandoc' can easily act as frontend for TeX, allowing MarkDown to be rendered through TeX to anything it supports.
Pandoc also lets you write TeX in the markdown - for anything that isn't supported by MarkDown. Note there were TeX commands in the "MarkDown" file. ;)
So you don't lose any of the abilities of TeX with this, but for the subset of mark-up that MarkDown provides it tends to be more concise, more readable, and more writable than TeX. And many people are unfamiliar with TeX, as above.
Longevity wise, it should always be easy to convert back to TeX if needs be (via pandoc or manually).
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