[xrt]

It's been sad to watch Markdown eclipse Textile http://txstyle.org in popularity. Textile provides a more complete mapping to HTML than Markdown, while remaining easy to use.

Its primary flaw is translating line breaks into HTML line breaks. Per the article's criticisms, it too lacks a formal spec and supports embedded HTML.

[Tobu]

I like Textile too, it has the cleanest "link syntax":http://txstyle.org/doc/12/links. It's supported in Redmine and ikiwiki.

[Terretta]

Textile does tables too.

http://redcloth.org/hobix.com/textile/

For styled web content, I prefer Textile. For beginners who don't need to CSS style content inline, Markdown is better.

[hasenj]

I think its primary flow is the link syntax.

As far as I remember, github's wiki pages used to be in Textile format. I might be mistaken here, but I remember being annoyed all the time by the link syntax.