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Originally Posted by jandrew
So why not choose to just use a subset of markdown syntax that does what you want? They would still be valid markdown texts and people on any platform could convert them to other formats. Your choice of defining your own special markup and providing a windows only executable to produce html only limits the accessibility of your texts.
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I have made this choice many years ago -- admittedly I could have used a subset of an existing format, but, well, I didn't, and I had some reasons for not doing it. (For instance, my format allows to easily grep for headings up to a specified level, which Markdown doesn't.) The texts are fully accessible to anyone who can read plain text. The HTML-converter (of which the source code is included in the download file) is written in Euphoria and can be very easily ported to Linux or Mac.
But, really, anyone who may see some advantage in my format for a specific purpose is welcome to use it, everybody else doesn't have to!