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Please, for the love of god, Stop creating markup languages, we have enought

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  • 2
    You meant to say, data interchange formats?
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    Is there anything out there besides html and markdown?
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    If devrant had its own unique markup language you WOULD use it.
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    Thanks for advice, I'll publish my markup language rn
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    I can totally see why this happens.

    In github wikis you have at least 5 markup languages and I don't particularly like either.

    I like most stuff about markdown except how they treat 1 line break as 0 line breaks.

    I would want to take a txt file and spice it up with some headings and bolds without having to enter double line breaks.
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    Hah, well I'm going to create yet another markup language! And I'll call it...

    Oh wait...
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    @AlmondSauce

    "Almond Sauce Script"
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    @jonathands Haha, yep that's what happens. Almost unavoidable.
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    Follow up to my previous comment about searching for a markdownish language that respects line-breaks and is suitable for "spicing up a txt file"

    For githubwikis I've started using Textile.
    It respects line-breaks. Has similar syntax to markdown when it comes to the most basic stuff like bold, list, emphasis. But has a very different syntax for stuff like links, images and headings.

    I find it quite hard to remember the syntax for links and images...so not crazy about it but the nice thing about githubwikis is that you can select a markuplanguage per page so I can use it only in a handful of cases if I want to.

    https://borgar.github.io/textile-js...
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    HTML apparently has become soo complex we need new markup languages to generate it
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