Glorpdown is plaintexty and mildly line-oriented, not totally unlike Gemtext. (Although at this point also a little less similar to Gemtext than it used to be.) I use it for this website.
This is kind of documentation, maybe mostly test page.
Lines that start with #, ## or ###.
# one
## two
### threeLines that start with >.
> blepblep
Lines that start with at least three --characters.
---Lines that start with *.
* one
* twoLines that starts with at least two `-characters. Following lines are preformatted text, until there's a line that starts with the same number of `-characters. Text-part of line that turns preformatted text off is caption. (Text-part of the one that turns it on can potentially be picked up by renderer for rendering things differently or something.)
This:
``
code here
```
not turned off yet so things are still code
`` Description of the codeIs rendered as:
code herenot turned off yet so things are still code
## Drawings
Preformatted but with "drawing" on the turn-on-line:
``` drawing
.-----+
.------+--. .->| asd |
| blep | | / '-----+
'------+--+-'
``` A drawing
## Img
``` img
https://loremflickr.com/320/240/dog
``` Probably a dog
## Text
Other lines are empty or they're lines with regular text. Text can be formatted a little. Text between two `\``-characters is code. Text between two `_`-characters is emphasized. Formatting cannot be nested. `\\` is used for escaping. Escaping works for any character, but can be useful for formatting characters, escape characters, and characters at the start of a line (e.g. if you want a regular text line to start with `=>`).
```
\=> Text line with `code with \`-character` and _emphasis with `-character_.
```
\=> Text line with `code with \`-character` and _emphasis with `-character_.
And `^` is used for links. Mostly same mechanism as for formatting. So you cannot emphasise text within a link and so on...
```
^https://dailyotter.org/^ and ^https://dailybunny.org/ bunny^.
```
^https://dailyotter.org/^ and ^https://dailybunny.org/ bunny^.
## Key-value pairs
Lines that start with `:` followed by and then some non-whitespace character. Stuff directly after the `:` is the key. The text part of the line is the value. Used for some things. This page has a ^./datetime.txt timestamp^ and a description kind of attached to the first heading:
```
# Glorpdown
:pub Zk7NML
:blurb Dawn of glorp.
```
Okay I think that's mostly it.