Awesome Markdown Alternatives

A collection of awesome light-weight markup markdown alternatives

Wikipedia Wikitext / Wikicode

• Wikitext - wiki markup used by Wikipedia and friends

= Heading 1 =
== Heading 2 ==
'''bold'''
''italics''
[http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia]

Creole

• Creole - "Standardized" core Wikitext markup

= Heading 1 =
== Heading 2 ==
**bold**
//italics//
[http://www.wikipedia.org/|Wikipedia]

AsciiDoc

• AsciiDoc

= Heading 1
== Heading 2
**bold**
__italics__
http://www.wikipedia.org/[Wikipedia]

Textile

• Textile

h1. Heading 1
h2. Heading 2
*bold*
_italics_
"Wikipedia":http://www.wikipedia.org/

reStructuredText (rst, reST)

• reStructuredText (rst, reST)

Heading 1
=========
Heading 2
---------
**bold**
*italics*
.. _Wikipedia: https://www.wikipedia.org/

BBCode

• BBCode - bulletin board code

[heading]Heading 1[/heading]
[b]bold[b]
[i]italics[i]
[url=https://www.wikipedia.org/]Wikipedia[/url] 

Pendown

• Pendown - lightweight markup for colored documents

! Heading 1
!! Heading 2
**bold**
%%italics%%
@@http://www.wikipedia.org/ Wikipedia@@