the issue with markdown was that it was too simple

[bowerbird]

>   
https://medium.com/@chacon/living-the-future-of-technical-writing-2f368bd0a272
>   scott chacon, github cofounder, author of "pro git", on release of 
the second edition

>   The issue with Markdown was that it was too simple.
>   It didn’t specify things like table formatting, cross references,
>   indexing, callouts, source code examples, etc.
>   All of which Asciidoc does in a format that is just as easy to 
write.

if you want to correct someone, correct scott chacon. he said it, not 
me.

-bowerbird