# Hello there!
This is a playground for ''Markless''(https://shirakumo.org/docs/markless, color red, large), a //text based// **markup language** intended for __simple__ document and comment publications.

Markless is a relatively new[1] markup standard that focuses on being intuitive first and fast for computers to process second. Being a purely text-based markup, no complicated editor software is required to create documents in it, any simple text editor will do. v(Though of course, having syntax highlighting and previews are nice.)

[1] Development of the standard started in 2015

The Markless standard does not specify its results based on another document format, meaning that an implementation could be written to turn a Markless document into practically any other format[2]. Markless is strict and does not allow for any ambiguities in its markup. This should both make it less confusing for you, and easier to parse for a computer program.

[2] While the output here is HTML, cl-markless for instance can also translate to BBCode, LaTeX, and EPUB, among other formats.

Here's some more useful links:
- https://shirakumo.org/docs/markless/
  For a more complete tutorial on Markless' syntax
- https://shirakumo.org/docs/markless/markless.html
  The full specification document
- https://shirakumo.org/project/cl-markless/releases/latest
  Downloads for cl-markless to convert documents offline

The Markless document standard and ecosystem is brought to you by the ''Shirakumo Collective''(link #logo).

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:::
- ::This should //not// be parsed
:::

:: markless
- This //should// be parsed
::

| Quoting for justice
~ Someone, probably

~ Yukari | And **this** is how you do the
         | inline quotes.
~ Haruna | //Woah.//

1. First things first, this <-is great->
10. Now for something different.