ated by browser developers who did not suspect that people would engage in such an atrocity.</aside>


<p>Finally to reduce the visual weight of the before and after pseudo elements we can give them a soft purple color and a low weight font:</p>

<style>
*::before,*::after {
  color:rgba(136, 18, 128, 0.5);
  font-weight:100;
  font-size:1.0em
}
</style>

<aside>A different though similar thing I wanted to do was to make a "markdown.css" file that displays html as markdown. Fortunately I found that some oth