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For a more pragmatic alternative to Markdown see Text with Instructions (.texti) that gets you the best of Markdown, Wikipedia Markup, LaTeX & Friends. See https://texti.github.io

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I don't see anything pragmatic about it. It seems like a complete mess, less convenient than markdown (putting a space before a title makes it into a comment? uwot?), and no more extensible.

You're misreading what texti is all about. A comment is unix-style # and a heading (title) is using the wikipedia markup convention. You can put as many spaces before as you like it makes no difference to a comment or to a heading (title). See some samples @ https://github.com/texti/texti.github.io/tree/master/samples to compare markdown, texti and wikipedia markup using a real-world article (from wikipedia itself on markup languages).

About extensible - it's no different from markdown with two additions - 1) evolution / changes are more than welcome and 2) texti (like wikipedia markup) has (recursive) template extensions / includes built-in.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing the link! Always helpful to read about related projects.

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