Comment 4 for bug 495898

Already commented over here https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/526034, advocating for (in the case of markdown support), the value of adherence to Pandoc's extensions.

Regarding the importance of WYSIWYG editing, that is not at all important to me personally relative to the usefulness of the underlying data structures and ability to use Zim as one interoperable element in an open toolchain for managing documentation.

But that's me, FOSS developers do scratch their own itches. . .

For IMO a great example of striking the right balance, have a look at Python journaling app Rednotebook - it makes use of Txt2tags syntax and even the "Edit" view does some nice "most of the way" formatting for "Live" editing feedback when you've missed a syntax detail. . .