@bragefuglseth uhm what exactly do you mean with "the vast majority of things people do with word processors"? People use them for letters (biggest use), forms and contracts (often strict formatting requirements), invoices (complex content, letterhead), academic papers and theses (very precise formatting requirements)... Markdown doesn't cut it for any of these. Google docs comes close but in reality people want Word because they need Word.

(Also file format compatibility)

@gcampax Sentence will have the capability of exporting documents to a selection of file types (PDF, HTML, and so on), so we’re not expecting everybody and their dog to handle markdown. For things with specific formatting requirements, we could e.g. have a way to change the global styling of the document. Invoices, contracts and similar corporate stuff is probably best suited for specialized software anyways (maybe word processors *is* that specialized software?)

@gcampax @bragefuglseth Maybe frontmatter header could fill the base formatting needs as the metadata of the underlying markdown format? Not to go wild with customization, but for basic formatting needs like, document type and margin.