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It's a writer's tool, rather than a coder's tool. Markdown text is getting on for half as long as equivalent HTML.

        # Subheading
        
        ## Main heading
        
        Plain paragraph.
        
        - bullet
        - bullet
        - bullet
        
        Paragraph.
87 characters in Markdown. 147 in HTML. If I write in HTML, I get distracted from the words by the HTML markup...


Ah. Interesting. I use macros in Textmate and Typinator to accomplish more or less the same thing; for example, command-shift-v will enter "<a href=command-v">, with command-v being paste, and command-i will yield italics, and so forth. Still, having something universal, like Markdown, sounds attractive.




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