even if it wasn't anachronistic to this project, the big problem with possibly using markdown syntax is that I don't think there's even a visual basic 6 implementation of markdown.
I may be writing VB6 code on Windows 98 (at 640x480!) for fun, but I have limits.
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There are, however, plenty of tools that convert markdown to HTML, and VB6 is able to display that.
So all you need is something that runs in your build system to convert the markdown to HTML and you're golden.
According to https://metacpan.org/release/BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.000031/source/Makefile.PL, perl's Text::Markdown runs on perl 5.8. I would be very surprised if you couldn't get that to run on Windows 98?
But then, big amount of yak shaving, that.
There are, however, plenty of tools that convert markdown to HTML, and VB6 is able to display that.
So all you need is something that runs in your build system to convert the markdown to HTML and you're golden.
According to https://metacpan.org/release/BOBTFISH/Text-Markdown-1.000031/source/Makefile.PL, perl's Text::Markdown runs on perl 5.8. I would be very surprised if you couldn't get that to run on Windows 98?
But then, big amount of yak shaving, that.
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@foone RTF isn't strictly a markup language, but is era-appropriate and made of ASCII directives annotating otherwise plain text?