AsciiDoc is a text document format for
writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages.  AsciiDoc files
can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups.

adoc-mode is an Emacs major mode for editing AsciiDoc files.  It emphasizes on
the idea that the document is highlighted so it pretty much looks like the
final output.  What must be bold is bold, what must be italic is italic etc.
Meta characters are naturally still visible, but in a faint way, so they can
be easily ignored.