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When I first discovered Dean Allen's Textile I thought it was god's gift to light-weight markup languages. For the next two years I used it everywhere possible, even so much as to write a few school papers (in part) using the syntax. It was trying to use textile for non-web purposes that finally removed my blinders to alternatives.
ReStructuredText is freaking huge so users of lighter-weight markup languages can be easily put off. This is an absolute basics quickref to ReST for those kinds of users. Eye-ball the Closing at the bottom for a bit more perspective. Headers Just use non-alphanumeric characters to underline (or under-and-overline) your heading. It doesn’t matter what you use, just be consistent with the character [...]
Read The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web at http://webtypography.net/. A great project devoted to a wonderful book.