Excellent points, thanks. I guess I mis-stated my goal. It is a) for me to be able to quickly write up a survey using pod markup for the non-form parts and the quickest possible and most legible but non-interfering markup for the form parts and b) for non-techies to be able to read the text file without even needing to see the cheatsheet.

The idea is much more like pod than like YAML - non-techies should be able to just read it, ignoring the =head1, etc.

Maybe the "another markup" thing is a reason for me to just use the module myself rather than CPAN it.