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

You could use Markdown (example) and then use Pandoc (which also works with reStructuredText and several other wiki-like syntaxes) to convert to PDF.