A Scholarly Markdown
And for everything else, there's AsciiDoc.[0]<p>For an extra five minutes learning you get a boatload (think container ship) more features[1] - it compiles to DocBook: a mature, <i>actually standardised</i>, highly structured format, and from that you get HTML, EPUB, PDF, slideshows, and man pages for free.[0]  For math you get MathML, ASCIIMath, and LaTeX (along with a number of ways to render them.)  It has a super nice syntax, is equally good at little docs and huge books, and you could theoretically write a proper academic paper in it with the LaTeX backend.  And you <i>always</i> know what's going to happen when you try to mix bold and italic...<p>Also endorsed by Linus.[2]<p><pre><code>    [0]: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/#_overview_and_examples
    [1]: Well, five minutes to be able to do everything Markdown can do; everything else will take a bit longer
    [2]: https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/X2XVf9Q7MfV (comments)</code></pre>