Avocet

Avocet is a structured text language somewhat akin to Markdown or reST, but better of course. It requires Python 2.4 or later to run.

• Download: avocet.py

There are also some tests, and here's an example document:

This is a paragraph, with {a link http://example.org/}.

* Lists are done like this.
* You can use + or - for the bullets, too.

{{ Second Level Heading }}

def code(): 
   print "This will automatically be recognised"
   print "as a preformatted section."

Another Second Level Heading
============================

Obviously this document mixes some styles, for demonstration.

> This is one way to do blockquoting.
> It can span multiple lines and only
> the first "> " is required.

[[[
This is another way of doing blockquotes.
You can do a nice citation this way.
]]] - {Example http://example.org/}

Avocet also supports footnoting [1].

[1] http://example.org/footnoting

It's easy to achieve indented verse
By ending the last line with three spaces:   

{{{
You can also do preformatted sections like this.

It makes it a lot clearer than the automatic method.
}}}

<address>
You can even use normal XHTML.
</address>

For more examples, see the tests.