We should not forget, that the "spirit of Markdown" is:
> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
You’re at least the third person to point to that paragraph while failing to acknowledge an important paragraph further into the article. :)
> The overriding design goal for Markdown’s formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it’s been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.
So a text-to-HTML conversion to with the overriding design goal of being readable as-is… that’s the Gruberian spirit, and the basis for my original post.
> Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).
Inventor of Markdown
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/