Lighweight markup (wiki) language for documenting

Question

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 t

Answer 1

reStructuredText.

You can use Sphinx to generate HTML and LaTeX (and later PDF with pdflatex).

There is also rst2pdf, don't know if it's mature.