Strictdown is a Markdown-like markup language originally for writing simple HTML documents which can be printed out onto a paper.

It aims to provide a better syntax for plain text writing with nice editors, and for writing correct parsers (...vanilla Markdown sucks ;-).

It focus on readability, simplicity and consistency, and has a stricter syntax but some extra features which the vanilla Markdown doesn't provide. So, its syntax is different from vanilla Markdown's in many ways.

It is not only for phonograms (like English), but for logograms (like Chinese). And I'm a Chinese. I think lots of Chinese people will find it more suitable for their works.