Dag Wieers wrote: > On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Stuart Rackham wrote: > >> Dag Wieers wrote: >> >>> I always liked the way asciidoc did titles by putting a line under them. >>> Nevertheless the '= title' way of doing it is incompatible with most >>> wiki's syntax. A title in wiki's is usually '= title ='. >>> >>> Would it be possible to allow both, so that asciidoc is compatible with >>> both ways of doing it ? >> I'm not familiar with the trailing ='s syntax, is it a common Wiki >> convention? It would be easy to make trailing ='s optional i.e. the >> following would be equivalent: >> >> == My Title >> == My Title == >> >> Is this what you're suggesting? > > Yes. MoinMoin apparently uses it and looking at the wikimatrix.org > website, you see others use that as well. (DokuWiki, Giki, IkeWiki, > JAMWiki, miniWiki, MoniWiki, OpenWikiNG, etc, etc...). There are more who > do the trailing = than not. > > And since it's so easy to allow it...
OK, I've implemented this for the next release. > > >>> Frankly, I don't know what the rationale is for doing it like this. >> I had a couple of requests for this (you either like it or hate it), the >> actual syntax follows the Ruby RDoc documentation format. > > That's fine. If you look at wikimatrix.org, it's scary how much different > syntaxes people invented for essentially the same thing :) > > If the syntax would be replacable in wiki's and one could hook up asciidoc > in place of the internal parser. Now that would be useful. > > Kind regards, > -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- > [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power] > Cheers, Stuart _______________________________________________ Asciidoc-discuss mailing list Asciidoc-discuss@metaperl.com http://metaperl.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asciidoc-discuss
