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date: 2013/01/22 17:05:04
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Just for completeness' sake I have gone over Wikipedia's list of `lightweight markup languages <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language>`_
and added support in `Nikola <http://nikola.ralsina.me>`_ (a static site and blog generator) for a couple of them: 
`BBCode <http://bbcode.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ and `txt2tags <http://txt2tags.org/>`_, which brings the number of
supported markup formats to 7 (the others are reStructured text, markdown, HTML, textile and Wiki).

Of the list of markup languages, the only missing ones with a Python implementation are AsciiDoc and Markdown Extra.

Why bother with this? It's not as if there was someone *asking* for BBCode support. However, one of the uses I want to support
is archiving sites. Suppose you have a forum you want to shut down? I want you to be able to archive it (even if it's some 
work) and keep the data out there. A wiki? Same thing.

This is a first step in that direction.