title: Lighweight markup (wiki) language for documenting
body: <p>When I write papers or documentation it makes think using LaTeX or OpenOffice is overkill as I usually only need some markup elements (bold, headlines, lists, ...) . I'd like to write my documents using a wiki style markup as this is very efficient.</p>
  
  <p>For example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>= Introduction =
  '''HTML''' is a markup language...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the end I'd like to simply convert it to PDF. (Cross-platform was nice too.)</p>
  
  <pre><code>compiler.exe -pdf input.wiki output.pdf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a tool (or simple tool chain)  to do this job?</p>
  
  <p>I'd personally like to <em>not</em> make use of LaTeX as a transformation step. There are tools doing this job transforming lightweight syntax to TeX and then to PDF/PS.</p>