My constant hassle with markdown is it’s inability to align images, or am I missing something?

I totally agree that tags inhibit creative writing. I can hand code HTML/CSS, but I can’t write anything decent whilst doing it. The other major pain with tags is that the flow of your original document is crap. Markdown leaves you with a readable document.

My only difficulty is that I want to take things one step further and use it for all my writing needs. Markdown hasn’t seen any development in a while and the missing image manipulation is an issue for me, especially as most blogs contain images.

I have some 3000 pages of MS Word documents that I need to find another format for so if anyone things any of these markup languages are up to it it would be great to hear.

sorry for writing so much!

That’s not to say that Markdown, WikiScript, LaTEX, or using in-lined emacs command syntax is any more or less valid than HTML or whatever other syntax someone else has a vested interest in using.

The only thing that matters is whether or not the output of said syntax methodology is readable with zero effort on my part.

(Heck, you could code this using straight MIME encoded UNICODE variables for all I care at that point.)

I mean, ${some_variable} to echo a variable, and if/else, and foreach an array?

Or, do you just use something like PHP’s and use PHP’s if/else/foreach? Or Ruby or Python, etc, I mean.

So that particular issue, pain in the bottom as it can on rare occasions be, is easy to work around now and will completely vanish in the future.

It’s too clunky and requires as much user involvement to get it working 100% of the time as simple HTML or BBCode. Nothing more frustrating than posting a URL with an underscore in it and having markdown convert those underscores into italics, breaking the whole damned thing.

In fact, it’s nice in that it gives you control without sacrificing readability.