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Treatise on My Perfect Lightweight Markup Language
It would have...
- org-mode style inline syntax.
- with the ease of HTML hackery of textile.
- with the compiled language support that Markdown offers.
org-mode's inline attributes map nearly 1:1 with how I personally format in plain text, you have __underscores__ that look like underlines,
//italics// that look like italics, and **bold** that actually looks like bold. I want a LML that has nearly all the same features that you'd find on
your common or garden word-processor, and with how often I refer to D&D 5e books, I want actual, implemented description lists. org-mode is absolutely
perfect for this, but it's nearly entirely confined to the single text editor it was created in. Markdown has amazing support, but as a general shorthand
for HTML, it feels sorely lacking. Textile makes up for it's shortcomings, but it suffers from a lesser problem that also plagues org-mode's development,
and it's syntax can feel woefully clunky at points, that being said, it has the absolute best numbered list syntax out of all of the above mentioned LMLs.
Sample
= Heading 1
== Heading 2
=== Heading 3
====[id] Heading 4
- Here
- is
- an
- unordered
- list
#. Here
#. is
#. an
#. ordered
#. list
- Here :: is
- a :: single
- description :: list
!<an_image.png>
And here is **Bold**, //Italic//, __Underline__, ^^Superscript^^, & --Strikethrough-- %{color:red}We also have span support%, %(i)in diffent flavours!%
[Markdown's](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown) link format works //fine//.
\`\`\`c
// So do the code blocks.
\`\`\`