<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg.dtd"> <html xmlns:svg='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' xml:lang='en' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'> <head><meta content='application/xhtml+xml;charset=utf-8' http-equiv='Content-type' /><title></title></head> <body> <p>filters – including <a href='http://docutils.sourceforge.net/mirror/setext.html'>Setext</a>, <a href='http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/atx/'>atx</a>, <a href='http://textism.com/tools/textile/'>Textile</a>, <a href='http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html'>reStructuredText</a>, <a href='http://www.triptico.com/software/grutatxt.html'>Grutatext</a>, and <a href='http://ettext.taint.org/doc/'>EtText</a> – the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.</p> <p>To this end, Markdown’s syntax is comprised entirely of punctuation</p> </body></html>