#ShowerThoughts could the #PlainText format wars be nullified by a configurable parser for formatted text, with a canonical form for its configuration?

The configuration could be simpler than a parser grammar, given the plain-text context - it could be a specification of the sigils for different sections of text. Given configurations for standard #Markdown #ASCIIdoc #ReStructuredText , it would be easy to parse variants by patching the configuration since it would be in a canonical form.