Category: Programming

Markdown is a lightweight markup language. It allows individuals “to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML)”. Markdown’s syntax is intended to be used as a format for writing for

MultiMarkdown (MMD) is a lightweight markup language that is based on Markdown. This tool turns minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents.

GitHub Flavored Markdown is the dialect of Markdown that is currently supported for user content on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise.

Markdown Extra is a lightweight markup language based on Markdown. It is free and open source, ported to PHP initially.

AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web pages, man pages and blogs.

Textile is a lightweight and simple markup language billed as a “humane web text generator”. Converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML.

Tome is a markup language and associated tool suite released under an open source license intended for authors, primarily authors of novels.

Texy is a text-to-XHTML formatter and converter library that allows you to write structured documents without knowledge of or using the HTML language.

reStructuredText (often abbreviated as reST) is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.