> The specified behavior of groff is that an ASCII "-" (Hyphen-Minus) in the input becomes a Hyphen in the output.
This makes no sense and virtually any program that does similar things (ligatures, auto-emoji, formatting...) on output that will realistically be copy-pasted should burn in hell.
They may also add new options every now and then. I don't remember seeing the "Insert emojis using the colon character" option. Turned that damn thing off.
IAC Markdown and Mkdocs has been a solid platform for notes and with a private Gitea instance, all of my notes are local and private. Since MkDocs can serve the pages it produces, I can use it away from my home LAN (homelab) too, even w/out network access (though I suppose G. Docs has some way to cache documents locally. But I'd probably have to plan in advance.)