Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-12 Thread Tommy Bollman
Hello. I just must say that I have tried Fletcher Penneys version of multi markdown recently. The 3.x version seems to me to be very suitable for the task of converting to LaTeX, which is slightly more complicated than converting to HTML. I have tried pandoc, but I find it far more easier to

Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-12 Thread Rob McBroom
On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:46 PM, David Chambers wrote: Check out Jeremy Ashkenas's docco. Truly beautiful. People might also be interested in appledoc, which uses Discount to parse comments. -- Rob McBroom http://www.skurfer.com/ ___ Markdown-Discuss

Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-12 Thread Waylan Limberg
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Rob McBroom mailingli...@skurfer.com wrote: On Apr 11, 2011, at 5:46 PM, David Chambers wrote: Check out Jeremy Ashkenas's docco. Truly beautiful. People might also be interested inĀ appledoc, which uses Discount to parse comments. There is also Apydia [1],

Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-12 Thread bucephalus org
Hi Bob, hi Waylan, There seems to be no end in good news I definitely need to study all that. Thank you very much! What I like in Markdown, compare to other lightweight-markups and in this context of program documentation, is the two little, but very useful features: backticks around a

Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-11 Thread Sherwood Botsford
Interesting concept, but I think you have it partially reversed. You want php - codedown - web I think it would be better: codedown - php codedown - markdown - web One of the weaknesses for most programming is that people postpone writing the documentation. In one of the few programming

Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-11 Thread bucephalus org
Hi Sherwood, Thank you very much for your interest and reply! On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Sherwood Botsford sgbotsf...@gmail.comwrote: Interesting concept, but I think you have it partially reversed. You want php - codedown - web I think it would be better: codedown - php codedown

Re: CodeDown = Markdown as the universal language for program documentation

2011-04-11 Thread David Chambers
Check out Jeremy Ashkenas https://github.com/jashkenas's doccohttp://jashkenas.github.com/docco/. Truly beautiful. David On 11 April 2011 13:32, bucephalus org bucephalus@gmail.com wrote: Hi Sherwood, Thank you very much for your interest and reply! On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 9:05 PM,