[Alan Kennedy]
>>So, I'm hoping that the learned folks here might be able to give me
>>some pointers to a markup language that has the following
>>characteristics

[Paul Rubin]
> I'm a bit biased but I've been using Texinfo for a long time and have
> been happy with it.  It's reasonably lightweight to implement, fairly
> intuitive to use, and doesn't get in the way too much when you're
> writing.  There are several implementations, none in Python at the
> moment but that would be simple enough.  It does all the content
> semantics you're asking (footnotes etc).  It doesn't have an explicit
> object model, but is straightforward to convert into a number of
> formats including high-quality printed docs (TeX); the original Info
> hypertext browser that predates the web; and these days HTML.

Thanks Paul,

I took a look at texinfo, and it looks powerful and good ....... for programmers.

Looks like a very steep learning curve for non-programmers though. It seems to require just a few hundred kilobytes too much documentation ......

regards,

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