Calico

Calico is a lightweight markup language designed to be used in web apps to format user-submitted content.\ It mainly uses Markdown's syntax when appropriated to make things painless.

It is greatly inspired by Challis from Christian Neukirchen, but is even more lightweight.

Features

Calico handles four block elements: paragraphs, (unordered) lists, quotes and raw unprocessed text blocks.

In the first three block types, you can use inline markup along the lines of Markdown. Raw blocks are left untouched (except HTML-entity escaping)

Tutorial

Blocks are separated by two newlines. Raw blocks are enclosed by a pair of --- on their own lines. The first characters of a block gives it's type: *␣ for a list, >␣ for a quote, anything else for a paragraph.