The creator might have taken a look at wikicreole before creating something
new.  They have already been thru the struggle to create a simple way to
text markup a doc for conversion by the wiki.

http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0

But it is the same concept that a lot of wiki's use.

Rob Schramm
Senior Systems Consultant
Imperium Group



On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM, McKown, John <
[email protected]> wrote:

> It's called "Markdown". It is interesting/neat because it uses "plain
> text" formatting, such as we often use in email as its source and can
> reformat that into HTML or XHTML.
>
> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/
>
> I think it is interesting because I like the idea of using text which is
> readable "as is", such as in ISPF edit or browse, and being able to use
> that to create HTML for web pages. I got a pointer to it from "github",
> which is something else that I'm looking at the possibility of using for
> something. But I'm unsure of this other use, so I'm still mulling it over
> in my mind.
>
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