Even if you don't like MD, sometimes you don't have a choice

Even if you don't like MD, sometimes you don't have a choice

2025, Jun 04    

TL;DR;

downdoc -o out.md README.adoc

Opinions are my own. I may have to exagerate them for obvious narrative reasons.

Yes, you hate Markdown, and yet it seems to spread like a disease.

Yet, textual format documentation is an absolute necessity for us developers, and I am sure you already have found your challenger. I am talking, of course, about ASCIIDOC

Guess you would not be here if you hadn’t.

But there are some cases where you just don’t have a choice and have to produce Markdown. 😢

Saaad keanu crying about markdown flavours

You are not doomed.

It seems that Dan Allen, father of Asciidoctor, agrees with you 100%.

Strange, isn’t it?

Anyway, he also fathered Downdoc…​ That name is absolutely marvelous, and here is its headline:

Rapidly down-converts AsciiDoc to Markdown.

You can either use npx to use it :

npx downdoc -o out.md README.adoc

Or install it using mise:

mise use npm:downdoc@latest
downdoc -v

All hail to ASCIIDOC

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