md target is important

[cboecking]

Problem

I am creating this issue to communicate a use case that I believe is important. I believe the use case is already covered; however, I wanted to bring it to everyone's attention.

When creating a book whose audience is AI (LLM), the desired output is markdown (not html).

Said another way, I find myself producing a book twice: once for humans (html) and once for AI (markdown).

Why would you want a markdown target when the source is already in markdown? Because you get the benefit of the pre/post-processors. These processors can ensure you source is as short and concise as is humanly possible while the target is fully expanded and complete.

I have read comments from time to time stating "the only value to md as a target is debugging output". I want to bring the AI use case to everyone's attention.

Proposed Solution

I hope this helps!

Notes

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