Ok, I'm trying to come up with a simple parser for a simple markup language, sort of like this, but with more features, including lists, but maybe not as complicated as some Wikis.
The two main goals are simplicity and "not-get-in-the-way-ness". I want the parser to be simple and fast, and most of all I want to make sure that the markup language doesn't get in the way of what you want to say. Hopefully it'll produce valid HTML too 
I should really look at how phpwiki does its formatting.
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