What are Lightweight markup languages?

About

Lightweight markup languages are markup language that are specialized to be read by a human.

Structure

They have generally a line-by-line structure where the line is the separator.

List

• markdown
• Markup - (Latex|Tex) - Mathematics notation
• Restructured Text with Sphinx
• asciidoc
• …

Library

• pandoc Markup language convertor,
• Generic Pretty Printer (GPP) based on the Box markup language: The GPP package is a tool suite for generic pretty-printing