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Absolutely. AsciiDoc (2002) is actually 2 years older than Markdown (2004), but is surprisingly similar to write.

It was created as an equivalent to DocBook XML for the creation of book-length technical documents. It has a rich history and is well supported in many places (try writing a README.adoc for your next GitHub-hosted repo).

It is also currently undergoing a standardization process:

https://projects.eclipse.org/proposals/asciidoc-language




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