Markdown set out to make ease of reading, writing, and editing prose. Its key design goal was readability—that the language be readable as-is, unencumbered by syntax.

HTML in Markdown deteriorates readability, yet a striking number of common use cases require it 🤔

• Effortless column blocks ⠀^{columns 🡭}⠀

• Shift any content left/center/right (+ image wrap) ⠀^{align 🡭}⠀

• Unified syntax for images and text: set links, colors, image sizes, and more ⠀^{unify 🡭}⠀

• Simple block comments ⠀^{comments 🡭}⠀

• User-defined pattern substitutions ⠀^{replace 🡭}⠀

• Line break/escape from image wrapping ⠀^{break 🡭}⠀

• Skew simple fractions like⠀^□ ⁄ _□ ⠀^{skew 🡭}⠀

• Code

  Extension imports Jotdoc plugins, contributes styles and syntax grammars, and exposes plugin options in settings