Markdown

Markdown is very popular text markup format, very simple to learn and use, allowing you to quickly write rich text content. Markdown is very popular among tech crowd, and it has various important advantages to serve as main method for writing content:

• Markdown is a compromise between having plain text and rich content.
• It can be written in any type of editor, even TinyMCE editor that can be used in bbPress.
• Markdown is readable as plain text it can be rendered into HTML on display.
• It can be stored as a string without complex markup elements or overhead.

Markdown has several settings only, including processing scope (topics/replies and signatures), engine to use for frontend rendering, and a tweak to restore dashes related to the way content is texturized by bbPress.