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In terms of wiki syntax, HTML is just so damned noisy that I'm fine with Markdown--but mostly because Markdown is fairly standardized and I don't have to learn a totally different syntax for everything.



"Fairly"

So I spend as much time faffing about with how this particular tool does anchors as I would just doing the "a" tag outright in HTML.


The real question is why aren’t you using the WYSIWYG editor most wikis have these days.




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