Markup languages

So, /prog/. You are writing an application, and want to let users write in text with some basic formatting. Which markup language do you use?

I don't think the end-users are SATORI enough for teh S-exxxpressionz yet. So let's get down and serious;
There's BBCode, of course, but that smacks even more of web development than HTML does. A HTML subset might actually work okay, everybody knows some HTML, right?
There's also a gazillion different Wiki-markups, like Creole and WikiMedia markup.
reStructuredText looks nicer than the Wikis, but seems to be very FIOC-specific.
Or should I just let them attach a .docx document, or give them a WYSIWYG editor (faggot)? It's all your call.

Markdown

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TeX

ROFF.

>>4
FUCK

L^AT_EX

An embedded Microsoft Word.

printf

ANSI escape codes

>>2
Wow, that was actually useful. Never saw that coming.
I'll probably opt for markdown. Nice try, all you others.

Markdown is nice if people want to learn it. HTML or BBCode is easiest for forums, since people know it. Regular users like WYSIWYG editors.

>>11
Regular users like BBCode.

HTML is the best.
Anything else is retarded.
With HTML, you provide your users with one of the two:
  * something useful to learn (unlike all the other solutions(
  * something that they are familiar with (because they already know HTML)

One thing HTML is not good at is that it does not provide sufficient layers of abstraction.
<br> is not as abstract as BBCode [#][br][\#], because the latter might translate (in phase 3) to whatever implementation dependant output.

>>13
Oh god I'm a retard.

>>1
LISP

>>13
And here we see why bbcode is fucking stupid.

use xml to write your own small markup language

>>13
The ultimate EXPERT BBCODE PROGRAMMER

>>3
In Knuth We Trust

textism is beautiful (http://textism.com/tools/textile/)
e.g.: ``-nigger- african american'' is totally unambiguous

(o (b (i (u 'EXPERT 'SEXP 'MARKUP))))

>>21

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