Textile (markup language)

Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen and billed as a "humane Web text generator". Textile converts its marked-up text input to valid, well-formed XHTML and also inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes.

Textile was originally implemented in PHP, but has been translated into other programming languages including Perl, Python, Ruby, ASP and Java.

Textile is distributed under the GNU General Public License, and is included with, or available as a plugin for, several content-management systems.

Version 2.0 was released in 2006.

[edit] Textile syntax examples

This is not an exhaustive listing of Textile's syntax. For a list of all available options in Textile 2, see the full syntax reference.

Emphasized text:

_emphasized_ (e.g., italics)

*strongly emphasized* (e.g., boldface)

Lists:

* An item in a bulleted (unordered) list
* Another item in a bulleted list
** Second Level
** Second Level Items
*** Third level

# An item in an enumerated (ordered) list
# Another item in an enumerated list
## Another level in an enumerated list

Tables (a | character must be at the beginning and end of every row):

|_. Header |_. Header |_. Header |
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |
| Cell 1 | Cell 2 | Cell 3 |

Code:

@code@

Headings: (you must leave a blank line after each heading)

h1(#id). An HTML first-level heading

h2. An HTML second-level heading

h3. An HTML third-level heading

h4. An HTML fourth-level heading

h5. An HTML fifth-level heading

h6. An HTML sixth-level heading

Blockquotes:

bq. This text will be enclosed in an HTML blockquote element.

Links:

"(classname)link text(title tooltip)":link_address

Images:

!image.address!

List of lightweight markup languages
Textpattern, a content-management system, also originally by Dean Allen, which uses Textile.

Textile home page, which lists all Textile syntax and offers a demo.
Textile Development, examples of the newest implementation
hobix.com Textile Reference, an example-based Textile reference.
Text::Textile, an implementation of Textile in Perl.
MT-Textile, an implementation of Textile in Perl for Movable Type.
PyTextile, an implementation of Textile in Python.
RedCloth, an implementation of Textile in Ruby.
vbsTextile, an implementation of Textile for Microsoft Active Server Pages
JTextile, an implementation of Textile in Java
Textile4j, an implementation of Textile in Java
TextilePHP, PHP version of Brad Choate's Textile Perl module, adding several features present in the Perl version but not in the standard PHP version of Textile.
Xilize, a superset of Textile for generating webpages, documents, and websites with any plain-text editor (plugin for jEdit available). Opensource.