inline text formatting

[SuperFuzzyBear]

It would be great to use some kind of formatting, and I like the very lite-weight inline formatting used by iAwriter.

They use an inline formatting language like markdown to allow simple visual formatting. because they don't remove the characters that format it's easy to learn, remember how to format from existing examples. for example: surrounding with stars makes something bold, but the leave the stars in the final display

see "innovative formatting" here http://www.iawriter.com/mac/