On Friday 26 December 2008 12:09:10 am Adam wrote: > Why not integrate Farkup or another plain text markup such as rst?
I think that a farkup approach *should* be explored. However, a nice property of 'easy-help' is that the implementation is simple in that the "markup" words are just parsing words. Where heavy-lifting parsing is needed, it falls back on the standard Factor lexer and parser. A more complex wiki-style markup language would probably employ PEGs. Don't get me wrong, I love pegs, but they're definately a heavy-weight depenency. Since easy-help is implemented as parsing words which expand into the standard Factor help markup, it's no problem at all two mix the two styles in the same file, for example when easy-help doesn't easily allow for some complex expression. It would be nice to be able to use something like 'easy-help' when documenting core words. I think a PEG dependency would prevent inclusion of such a markup system at the core level. Something along the lines of easy-help with it's much more conservative implementation might stand a better chance. Ed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
