No one should ever ask themselves "how do I do image positioning" or "how do I add pagination" when dealing with markdown. That's just not what it's good for.
Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX.
Also renderable safely and in bounded time (TeX is turing complete).
> No one should ever ask themselves "how do I do image positioning" or "how do I add pagination" when dealing with markdown. That's just not what it's good for.
Meh. This is a common question for table extensions, and the full-blown image commonmark spec is a bit of a mess.
> Imagine having to write comments on HN using LaTeX.
That would be an improvement over the current state of affairs at least, though probably a tad overdone on the other side of proper complexity.
Plain text paragraphs separated by blank lines is already a subset of LaTeX, so we are already doing that!
than that.