I think it's more the case that there is no good general-purpose solution yet, and a bunch of people use Markdown because it's easy within a very limited scope, so now you have to deal with Markdown's near-ubiquity if you suggest something else.
I would never try to write a book in Markdown, no matter how extended; but considering the HTML produced by asciidoc|tor, you might also say "don't use AsciiDoc for simple Web publishing."
What I find much more fascinating is the question why there is no good general-purpose format that works equally well for blogging and for scientific papers and for books?
I would never try to write a book in Markdown, no matter how extended; but considering the HTML produced by asciidoc|tor, you might also say "don't use AsciiDoc for simple Web publishing."
What I find much more fascinating is the question why there is no good general-purpose format that works equally well for blogging and for scientific papers and for books?
Is it really that hard a problem?