Tom Lord (lord@seyza.com)
Abstract Awiki is a markup language and data structure definition for structured documents with multimedia content. In that sense, awiki is comparable to both: (1) the machine-only usually-XML document formats used by some word processors; (2) the human-friendly document formats such as Texinfo or Docbook or your favorite wiki. As the name suggests, the design of Awiki borrows heavily from examples observed in the wiki world. This document briefly introduces Awiki syntax, in the context of explaining it's standard translation to HTML. |
Awiki is a plain-text markup language, similar to many Wiki languages. It comes with it's own Manifesto of Design Principles, shown here. (See should.)
If you would prefer or are curious, you can read the source form of this document, which is itself an example of Awiki syntax.