Shift content formatting to markdown

[rutajdash]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current content formatting style requires a lot of custom scripting, is prone to many errors, and is highly inefficient.

Describe the solution you'd like
Use of markdown for paragraph and content styling will allow for the use of available packages instead of a custom script.
Markdown can handle the following for our use case:

• Bold, Italic, Underline
• List (Ordered or Unordered)
• Tables
• Links

Describe alternatives you've considered
An alternative consideration is to use HTML tag-based formatting as before but it can limit functionality outside of web-based platforms.