Comment by xigoi
1 day ago
> What it can't do (as far as I understand): complex layouts, precise typography, embedded binary content, anything that needs pixel-perfect rendering. Am I missing anything? What are the other limitations I should know about?
Off the top of my head: Math typesetting, semantic markup, small caps, document sectioning. (All of these things are very important for me.)
The mistake people do is thinking markdown is something else than a text file formatting convention that is easily converted to other formats to make it prettier.
If what you want to do can't be done by a text file hosted on a gopher server, it just means markdown is not for your usecase.
Markdown is not meant to replace Latex or Microsoft Publisher.