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I will like to design/develop a formatting markup for an application that we are developing. Is there any standard on this like what StackOverflow uses when writing each question description.

deceze
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Geo
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  • Can somebody please change the title to "Are" instead of "Is"? I cringe every time I scroll past this. I'm allergic to bad grammar. I've temporarily remedied the solution with a post-it note stuck to my screen as I type this. – Sneakyness Aug 06 '09 at 00:52
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    @Sneakyness: There you go. :) – deceze Aug 06 '09 at 00:57
  • Sorry for that Sneakyness, ESL issues. – Geo Aug 06 '09 at 01:01

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There are lots and lots of lightweight markup languages out there. Markdown and Textile are two that I like.

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SO uses Markdown. Other interesting approaches include Wikitext and BBCode.

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