Textile is used for writing articles, forum posts, readme documentation, and any other type of written content published online.
Textile was developed by Dean Allen in 2002, which he billed as "a humane web text generator" that enabled you to "simply write".
[3] Text marked-up with Textile converts into valid HTML when rendered in a web browser, and though it probably varies from one implementation type to another, an installation of Textile can be set for a Doctype Declaration of XHTML or HTML5, with XHTML being the default for backward compatibility.
[5] Various resources are available for learning and using Textile: In addition to its suite of syntax usage, Textile automatically inserts character entity references for apostrophes, opening and closing single and double quotation marks, ellipses and em dashes, to name a few.
Textile is distributed under a BSD-style license and is included with, or available as a plugin for, several content-management systems.