They called it Markdown which is originally for Perl.
And there is a PHP port
We called it MakeDoc in the Rebol community.
Chris, had a Make-Doc Anywhere , Robert have Make-Doc-Pro
No, I am not here to say which is better. Rather, to highlight why this approach (either Markdown or MakeDoc) of writing is better.
I will use what Carl have said of MakeDoc as a reference; and I believe Markdown users will agree on the common benefits.
“MakeDoc is the fastest way to write documents I’ve ever found. It is better than word processors like Word because you don’t need to fumble around with undoing the “smart formatting” that gets in your way. You get to focus on your words and structure and not worry about the formatting.”
–Carl Sassenrath, REBOL Founder
Carl, has take it one step further using it in ’show.r’, a slide presetation tool. Using MakeDoc (and later MakeDoc2), he show how easy one is able to work on a keynote speech and easily output it for presentation as well as document like a web page.
PS: Maybe in another post, I will show how to create a presentation slide using Rebol ’show.r’…