@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..

@donblanco @starbreaker I've used text editors for so long, GUI just gets in the way.
Macros and scripts can add formatting, links, etc.

I somewhat regularly create Markdown versions of docs I've turned up.

@donblanco @starbreaker Example, Dugald Stewart's biography of Adam Smith:

PDF:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q6JFf-mAJPY0tfaXlQWUNwLWc/view?usp=drivesdk

Markdown:
http://pastebin.com/LdKXpHdR

Origin:
http://socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/smith/dugald