~10 years ago I introduced Textile markup at our student newspaper and they're still using it. Nobody complains about it. Some people write in Word first and th

~10 years ago I introduced Textile markup at our student newspaper and they're still using it. Nobody complains about it. Some people write in Word first and then add the tags, but most writers just use the tags right away. You're free to argue that these markup languages all suck, but this idea that it's impossible to get "normal people" to learn even a little bit of syntax, is preposterous – what about twitter #hashtags and @replies?