@dredmorbius @ebel You could, but I I have books typeset on Unix with troff, and I've always found them readable.

@starbreaker @ebel troff is quite readable.

It's not nearly so writeable.

@starbreaker @ebel I used it for seveal essays and papers at uni. I've forgotten virtually all of it.

I occasionally look to it for updating manpages, an tend to run screaming.

@dredmorbius @ebel I've reverse-engineered COBOL programs edited by a hundred different people. How much worse can this be?

@starbreaker Well, I won't argue with you on that one, but I'll note tha I'm no longer competing to fing the most painful and aggrevating computer environment.

What I like about Markdown is that it makes the easy stuff easy, and much of the slightly more complex still ain't bad.

@dredmorbius @starbreaker

I'm very happy, at this point, with combining Markdown, Pandoc and Weasyprint.

@Algot @dredmorbius I hadn't heard of WeasyPrint before. Thanks.

@dredmorbius Well, I can't take Catholic doctrine seriously, Dark Souls is too easy, and my wife would get jealous if I went to a dominatrix. If I want pain, it's gonna have to come from Unix.

@dredmorbius @starbreaker I'm not currently producing a book, but I love Markdown for clarity. Still, I generally prefer an editor where I can click a button or use an easy keyboard shortcut to insert the basic code for links or images.

I can definitely see using asciidoc/asciidoctor for the ebooks I have planned.

@donblanco @dredmorbius I might use Markdown or reStructuredText for EPUB and MOBI, but I want groff for making really nice PDFs.

@starbreaker @donblanco Not Tex?

Maybe there's a less crftty groff source format, but I've found it hostile..

@starbreaker oh that's a good point! Now I wanna try it. Just cause.