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, MultiMarkdown and CommonMark.

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  1. Quarkdown icon
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    Quarkdown is a modern Markdown-based typesetting system, designed around the key concept of versatility, by seamlessly compiling a project into a print-ready book or an interactive presentation. All through an incredibly powerful Turing-complete extension of Markdown, ensuring...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Markdown
    • Kotlin
     
    • Quarkdown is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Textile.

    • Quarkdown is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Textile.

    • Quarkdown is Free and Open SourceTextile is also Free and Open Source
  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).

    12 Markdown alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
    • Markdown is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Textile.

    • Markdown is Free and Open SourceTextile is also Free and Open Source
  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.

    16 Pandoc alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  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
     
    • txt2tags is the most popular Web-based alternative to Textile.

    • txt2tags is Free and Open SourceTextile is also Free and Open Source
  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
     
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    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
     
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    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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    • 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
     
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    Markup language for AMuseWiki.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
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