On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Aug 2013, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
>
> > Keep in mind, no matter what format we choose we do need to roll our
> > own engine.
> >
> > > It would also be a big transition from docbook to another format.
> > > We'd definitely need a translation tool to help us. I'm not sure
> > > what is out there, but I can definitely say what is not out there: a
> > > docbook to our-custom-markdown formatter. That's another thing to
> > > keep in mind.
> >
> > Any off-the-shelf docbook->ascidoc/rST/markdown/whatever is not going
> > to work anyway, so it doesn't matter what is out there :)
>
> Hmm, sortof not. I have been using rST for ages, and all my articles are
> written in it: https://github.com/derickr/derickrethans-articles
>
> It has some custom things, such as the meta data, support for vimeo etc
> as rST allows for you own definitions. I use Zeta Components' converter
> to get from rST to XHTML and have written some modifications. It also
> helps that the same stack allows rST->docbook and docbook->rST. And the
> stack allows for easy enough modifications...
>
> cheers,
> Derick
>

What about references between articles? Is there a markdown extension that
allows this?

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