Comment 5 for bug 495898

I agree that Markdown syntax should be supported, and actually replace the current DokuWiki based syntax. Here are some reasons:

* MarkDown is much more wide-spread and well-known
* MarkDown syntax is usually easier to type, e.g. *bold* instead of **bold**
* MarkDown's syntax is closer to the way people format "ASCII" text anyway
* MarkDown was developed for being both easy-to-read and easy-to-write, so fits very well with Zim's collapsed edit/view mode
* MarkDown is better supported as a source language by Pandoc
* MarkDown has mechanisms for escaping for special characters

See also http://hiltmon.com/blog/2012/02/20/the-markdown-mindset/ and http://512pixels.net/markdown-new-word51/ for why and how people are using MarkDown as a universal tool anyway.

See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/946229 why mechanisms for escaping user input are important.