I have a project where users are uploading text to be displayed on the web. This text is intended to be plain text, but some minor markup on the web pages would be fine. Some of the wikis I've seen use intuitive plain text standards (e.g. *bold*, /italics/) so I'd like to tap into those.

Here's the problem. The site isn't intended as a wiki. So I have either full-blown configurable wikis that don't have (documented) interfaces for outside control, or stand-alone modules that don't let me (easily) pick/alter their formatting choices.

So does someone know how I can do what I want, or will I have to steal the regexes etc. from the above and reinvent my wheel, or twist a wiki to the behavior I want?

In reply to Wiki (ish) formatting outside of a wiki by swiftone

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and:  <code> code here </code>
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