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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
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MultiMarkdown (MMD) is a lightweight markup language that is based on Markdown. This tool turns minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents.
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GitHub Flavored Markdown is the dialect of Markdown that is currently supported for user content on GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise.
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Markdown Extra is a lightweight markup language based on Markdown. It is free and open source, ported to PHP initially.
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AsciiDoc is a lightweight markup language for writing notes, documentation, articles, books, ebooks, slideshows, web pages, man pages and blogs.
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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.
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Tome is a markup language and associated tool suite released under an open source license intended for authors, primarily authors of novels.
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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.
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reStructuredText (often abbreviated as reST) is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system.
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Haml (HTML Abstraction Markup Language) is a markup language that’s used to cleanly and simply describe the HTML of any web document, without the use of inline code.
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