Elements of a Great Markup Language

• djot

  43 1,580 5.8 HTML

  A light markup language

> Markup language which completely falls over this is Markdown. There’s no way to express generic tree structure, conversion to HTML with specific browser tags is hard-coded.

This isn't really a fair criticism. True, the original Markdown.pl did not produce a generic tree structure, but that's a fact about the program, not the syntax it parses. Many Markdown and Commonmark implementations do support creation of an abstract syntax tree. Pandoc has done this for the last 17 years. It also provides nestable, generic containers as a syntax extension.

> It feels like there’s a smaller, simpler language somewhere

Here's my attempt: <https://djot.net>.

• cxt

  2 8 0.7 Python

  text markup for civilization

  

I recently made cxt[1] to try to solve many of the issues you mention.

[1]: https://github.com/civboot/cxt

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