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.
> 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.