Yes, who can remember some esoteric stuff like <i> for italic or <b> for bold? It's a lot easier to remember that your asterisks will be converted. Thanks Markdown!
What, these doesn't seem intuitively obvious to you?
Image:  Strikethrough: ~~The world is flat.~~ Highlight: I need to highlight these ==very important words== Bold: **Bold text** Italic: *Italic Text*
It's a lot easier to remember that your asterisks will be converted.
For neurotypical people not trained in programming languages, it actually is easier to use 'symbols' for *emphasis*, because they work as augmenters of the written text (i.e. they take the same role as punctuation, parentheses, question marks and exclamation signs), instead of changing the reading processing mode into a totally different mental context (i.e. as code tags instead of natural text with markings). Markdown was a clever hack to
Yes, who can remember some esoteric stuff like <i> for italic or <b> for bold? It's a lot easier to remember that your asterisks will be converted. Thanks Markdown!
What, these doesn't seem intuitively obvious to you?
Image: 
Strikethrough: ~~The world is flat.~~
Highlight: I need to highlight these ==very important words==
Bold: **Bold text**
Italic: *Italic Text*
Okay, yeah... not to me either.
It's a lot easier to remember that your asterisks will be converted.
For neurotypical people not trained in programming languages, it actually is easier to use 'symbols' for *emphasis*, because they work as augmenters of the written text (i.e. they take the same role as punctuation, parentheses, question marks and exclamation signs), instead of changing the reading processing mode into a totally different mental context (i.e. as code tags instead of natural text with markings). Markdown was a clever hack to
Has Slashdot considered support for Markdown?