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Asciidoc: When Markdown Just Isn't Cutting It

Asciidoc: When Markdown Just Isn't Cutting It

Update: 2025-11-03
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This story was originally published on HackerNoon at: https://hackernoon.com/asciidoc-when-markdown-just-isnt-cutting-it.

Markdown is amazing, but it has strong limitations. Asciidoc is the perfect tool to fill Markdown's gaps.

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Markdown is a lightweight markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown is amazing, but it has strong limitations.

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Asciidoc: When Markdown Just Isn't Cutting It

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