Bijan,

> > So I was wondering: How much of an effort would it be to provide
> > something like a "swiki book editor" that does exactly that - namely
> > just giving you a text editor which you can use to edit 
> > stuff and then translate its contents into "swiki terms" so that
> > they can be uploaded accordingly.
> 
> The biggest bit would be dealing with arbitrary HTML,

Whaddayamean, "arbitrary HTML"?! I don't want to program, I want to
write TEXT. In other words, if I have to write <b>bold text</b> then I
can as well do it in a browser. So there ain't no stinkin' HTML as far
as I am concerned. Only text. Or - in Squeak terms - only instances of
Text.

> And even that isn't tough if you don't have people adding 
> arbitrary HTML from the "edit mode" interface.

So what?! Scamper can render these pages, can it?! So all it needs is to
provide me that page of text, then allow me to edit it wysiwig-style and
post it back to the Swiki.

> > Anyone ever thought about this?!
> 
> Indeed. For PWS swiki I had an in squeak swiki editor that used
> SwikiSyntax (i.e., an edit mode). Worked great.

Well, again, I don't want no "syntax". I'm writing text and text has no
syntax other than implied by the language.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

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