On 2012-03-22, at 01:02, Eliot Miranda wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 21, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Camillo Bruni wrote: > >>> > >> i would also prefer disabling any styling in class comments > >> because often, when you copy/paste styled text into class comment, it > >> remains styled.. > > > > for class comments I would rather go with something like Markdown for > > formatting? which stays readable as is without formatting. > > > Yes, I would say so... I have to admit that I am a fan of the general "beyond > ASCII" idea of which one sees a tiny gimpse of a shadow > in Squeak... but the way it was done in Squeak was never really good enough > and people did not use it at all. (Partly because > both Morphic and it's text model as well as the UI never was any good...). > E.g. the first thing you want in comments is embedding > Figures (e.g. of Datastructures)... or even life working examples. > > Is there anything that Squeak Rich Text (of the kind that is serializable as > a method style) can do that Markdown can not? > > Hyperlinks to classes and methods?
that is easy to model in markdown using links... (igor did that for the NB documentation) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown
