[rich! @ etiviti]

if this helps anyone but my quick start for markitup (just the group forum areas for now – something funky with the activity entry textarea)

http://etivite.com/groups/buddypress/forum/topic/quick-tip-adding-markitup-to-group-forum-textareas/#topic

markitup will handle html or bbcode (enable the shortfilter and use this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/boingball-bbcode/) – and you can fake the WYSIWYG part by using the preview option