On 7/2/14, J.F. Rick <s...@je77.com> wrote: > Awesome. Not that I have time right now but I have always wanted to bring > Swiki / AniAniWeb into the present. This would be the right foundational > work to make this a useful reality. > > On a side note, I apologize for all the bad qualities of Pillar markup. > Back in 1999, I created ComSwiki out of the beginning that was PWS Swiki > (the first wiki to eschew camel case for links). One of the first things I > did was to make changes to the markup to improve it. Of course, once we had > some users and established content, all the decisions I made at that early > point in the project were made permanent. Looking at Pillar, it pretty much > uses the syntax I created back then (with a few improvements). I'm sure the > markup just drifted through the Smalltalk community and was then adopted by > Pillar. It's not a bad design but I've always felt that a better, more > extensible syntax was possible. As usual, the good proved to be the enemy > of the great. > > Cheers, > > Jeff
Jeff, According to https://github.com/pillar-markup/pillar-documentation the Pillar document model is based on the Pier document model by Lukas Renggli http://piercms.com/ Which might in turn be based on your Swiki model? Noteworthy to check out these days is https://github.com/GitbookIO/gitbook https://www.gitbook.io/ and of course pandoc which converts from and to an amazing number of markup formats http://johnmacfarlane.net/tools.html --Hannes > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:57 AM, p...@highoctane.be <p...@highoctane.be> > wrote: > >> >> Superb! >> >> Keep on pushing, that's how we can attain the critical momentum. >> >> Hopefully, I'll be able to show something from my side as well on the >> commercial products front. >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> >> wrote: >> >>> Wow, amazing - great work ! >>> >>> On 02 Jul 2014, at 09:28, Yuriy Tymchuk <yuriy.tymc...@me.com> wrote: >>> >>> > Hi everyone. >>> > >>> > I'm so excited that I cannot keep silent. Guys from Pharocloud have >>> implemented online editor (and storage) for Pillar documents. This is >>> really amazing, and you can check it out here: >>> http://pillarhub.pharocloud.com/hub/pillarhub/about. >>> > >>> > They have a really nice plans, and now we can write pillar docs with >>> live compilation and share them online. >>> > >>> > Cheers! >>> > Uko >>> >>> >>> >> > > > -- > Jochen "Jeff" Rick, Ph.D. > http://www.je77.com/ > Skype ID: jochenrick >
