setext -- Structure Enhanced Text (perl)
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setext is a simple markup language which was originally used in
1991 by the TidBITS newsletter. It is easily readable, but it
can't really represent complex documents: it only allows two
levels of headings, it only has unordered lists, and they can't
be nested.
TEXT 2002-08-11 4.0k setext.pl
TEXT 2007-09-09 8.9k setext2html.pl (GPLv2)
TEXT 2007-09-16 7.9k setext2latex.pl (GPLv2)
TEXT 2019-06-23 1.3k setext.cheatsheet
+--------------------------------------------------+
| setext cheatsheet |
+---------------+----------------------------------+
| Headings | Title |
| | ===== |
| | Subhead |
| | ------- |
+---------------+----------------------------------+
| Paragraphs | 66-chars long, indented by 2 |
| | spaces, and separated by two |
| | newlines. |
+---------------+----------------------------------+
| Lists | * Items start with a single `*` |
| | followed by a space, and can |
| | be wrapped |
| | * Lists can't be nested |
+---------------+----------------------------------+
| Inline markup | **bold text** |
| | ~italic~ (single word only) |
| | _underlined_text_ |
| | `literal text` (monospaced) |
+---------------+----------------------------------+
| Links | hot_word_ |
| | ^.. _hot_word http://example.com |
+---------------+----------------------------------+
HTML Setext at Wikipedia
HTML Setext at Eric Oliver's home
HTML + Archive.org version (2016-04-03)
TEXT + w3m-dump of the page (2019-06-23)