jmoiron.net

I've been in search of the "holy grail" of plain text markup for years. Before the first django version of this site, I was writing a custom mod_python handler to run a server-page style site and as part of that writing my own wiki creole. Since then, I've used TracWiki, reStructured Text, Markdown, MediaWiki, and Textile but have been left slightly disappointed by them all.

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