Submission: xidoc

[xigoi]

Name: xidoc

Author: xigoi (Adam Blažek)

Posting:

xidoc is a markup language intended to be consistent and powerful. It has a very straightforward syntax where everything is in the form of a command surrounded by square brackets. For example: [color #ff0; This text is yellow.] It can compile to HTML and LaTeX, allowing it to be used in many places. Features include:

• Basic text styling (bold, italics, monospace, spoiler, ...)
• Document layout primitives (section, paragraph, title, ...)
• Shortcuts for common Unicode characters (dashes, pretty quotes, ...)
• Lists, tables, checkboxes
• LaTeX math with helper commands
• Code snippets and blocks with optional syntax highlighting
• Defining custom commands
• Including other xidoc files
• Ways to produce any code in the target language
• CSS styling when compiling to HTML
• Documentation of all commands with examples
• Interactive playground for trying out a limited subset of the language in the browser

Some planned features:

• Inserting images
• Drawing vector images
• A proper module system
• Compiling to Markdown, plain text and gemtext

Check out the project website to find out more. I also wrote an article about the motivation for the project and how I went about implementing it.