New Zealand (South Island)
Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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I feel like markdown is great, until you start wanting to override layout. I think there's an unspoken agreement when using markdown: you promise not to think about final formatting and layout. If you betray that agreement, then you suffer the consequences of having used markdown.
This is more or less how I feel about most pre-fab solutions, though; for ease, you sacrifice flexibility. Not a bad thing, just something to be aware of before adopting.
Yeah, this. I can't be bothered spending time on solving problems that only exist because a software company somewhere decided that some feature was only available if you pay more for it. If I'm expending effort on something, I want it to be because I'm trying to do something unique, and that's what Linux and open source really is all about: collectively solving problems so that the next thing we do is something new and progressive.