On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 2:23 AM, Alistair Bayley
How's about Creole? http://wikicreole.org/
Found it via this:
http://www.wilfred.me.uk/blog/2012/07/30/why-markdown-is-not-my-favourite-la...
If you go with Markdown, I vote for one of the Pandoc implementations, probably Pandoc (strict): http://johnmacfarlane.net/babelmark2/
(at least then we're not creating yet another standard...)
Probably the best way to deal with this is by sidestepping it: make the support for alternative syntaxes as modular as possible, and choose two to start out with in order to get a reasonable shot at constructing a suitable API. I think it would be a shame to bikeshed on which specific syntaxes to support, when a lot of productive energy could more usefully go into actually getting the work done. Better to say "prefer a different markup language? code to this API, then submit a patch!"