Every time I sit down to write something with Markdown, I end up screwing up half of the formatting syntax. I inevitably reverse the image link/description tags, or confuse italic with bold. I have to skim through a 25 page Markdown formatting document, trying to find the right syntax. By the time I find the right tags, I've forgotten what I wanted to write.

Bug is written with visual mnemonics, so it's a bit easier to remember the syntax. And the syntax follows consistent rules. In fact, it's so simple that all of the characters you use to format build a little flying bug:

         {`}
        ~-#*>
         [']

Bug is a BYOB markup language: Build-Your-Own-Bugup. You can change the markup symbols to anything you like, and the syntax parser will automagically convert them into html tags.

Bold

Italic

Center

Blockquote

Hyperlink

Hyperlinks are made by wrapping [the.website.domain]{and the link's description} using square brackets for the url, and curlybraces for the description.

You can also make a "local" hyperlink (one that refers to pages on your kiki site) with a simple [page_name].

Images

Preformatted

Preformatted text 
   can
      appear on multiple
  lines and uses
two sets of three 
     single-quotes.

'''

Code

Lines
of code
use two sets of 
three accent graves (backticks).

  _______/\../\ 
/       . ◡  ◡  
\ _____=>  Y  =<
  -------w~~w-;