Textile AlternativesMarkup Languages and other similar apps like Textile

Textile is described as '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' and is a Markup Language in the development category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Textile, not only websites but also apps for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows and Self-Hosted apps. The best Textile alternative is Quarkdown, which is both free and Open Source. Other great sites and apps similar to Textile are Markdown, Pandoc, CommonMark and MultiMarkdown.

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  1. Quarkdown icon
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    A modern Markdown system featuring advanced scripting, syntax extensions, and live preview, enabling seamless creation of complex books, articles, and interactive presentations, with flexible output to PDF, HTML, support for variables and community libraries.

    12 Quarkdown alternatives

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Kotlin
    • Markdown
     
  2. Markdown icon
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    Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. Markdown allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format, then convert it to structurally valid XHTML (or HTML).

    13 Markdown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  3. Pandoc icon
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    Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library.

    18 Pandoc alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. CommonMark icon
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    For short it's the Markdown syntax standard. It replaces the old original Markdown.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. MultiMarkdown icon
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    MultiMarkdown, or MMD, is a tool to help turn minimally marked-up plain text into well formatted documents, including HTML, PDF (by way of LaTeX), OPML, or OpenDocument (specifically, Flat OpenDocument or ‘.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
     
  6. txt2tags icon
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    It reads a text file with minimal markup such as bold and //italic// and converts it to the following formats (among others):

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  7. PHP Markdown icon
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    PHP port of the Markdown text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  8. GitHub uses "GitHub Flavored Markdown," or GFM, across the site--in issues, comments, and pull requests. It differs from standard Markdown (SM) in a few significant ways, and adds some additional functionality.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
     
  9.  7 likes

    Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML, LaTeX, man-pages, open-document or XML. It includes reStructuredText, the easy to read, easy to use, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  10. MarkMyWords icon
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    A minimal markdown editor in the eOS design.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Vala
     
  11. Texy! icon
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    Texy! is a lightweight markup language as well as converter of this format to XHTML, in a form of a library written in the PHP scripting language. It allows the user to write structured documents without knowledge or using of HTML language.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  12.  2 likes

    Markup language for AMuseWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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