Ah, so there is no way to do text formatting without using [] tags? For instance, here are some of TWiki's formatting rules:
CapitalizedWordsStickedTogether? will produce a link automatically.
Blank lines will create new paragraphs.
Words get
bold by enclosing them in * asterisks
Words get
italic by enclosing them in _ underscores
Words get
bold italic by enclosing them in __ double-underscores
Words get shown in fixed font by enclosing them in = equal signs
What would it take to hack this type of functionality into vB? Hacking the parse engine? Coding a new one?