* Title ideas
** Org-mode is the Afghanistan of parsers
* Contents
** footnote definition vs list item end conditions
They have different precedent despite identical values
** Invisible, non-typeable escape character
** Why not use the invisible escape character for the special case of entities
entities use ={}= to escape the end of an entity but the invisible non-typeable escape character used everywhere else would have worked here too.
* Comparison to other formats
** Markdown
*** Critique of markdown
http://schwarze.bsd.lv/1703_mandoc_markdown.7
* Other org-mode parsers
might be fun to have a "remember the fallen" section