: Re: Is Markdown a viable source format for writing ebooks? I've for some time enjoyed using Markdown to handle straightforward text formatting, image presentation and the like, which I use for keeping

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(While the original question is older, my answer is relevant to show that Markdown continues to have value in more cases than you think, even as Markdown evolves.)

Yes. I've converted several PDFs into text, then Markdown, and then into an EPUB. Markdown is not as "cluttery" as say, raw HTML, so it's easier to read. And it's easier for beginners to learn for a markup language. Plus, any Markdown can be converted to many different formats given the right convertor program, like Pandoc.

So, Markdown is valuable because it's a starting point to make other formats. Part of my job is finding a "base format" for organized data, and text, so I can convert that to other formats for a wide variety of customers. So the concept of a "base format" is very important to me.

Markdown is valuable for ebooks because most ebook readers only support a very small subset of the EPUB spec anyway. So while Markdown is limited, that's exactly what you want so your book reads on the greatest number of reader software and hardware.

Weak points of any markdown includes ambiguous interpretation of the formatting, something Commonmark is trying to address.

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