On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:40:30 AM UTC+7, Joseph Reagle wrote:
I'll also note that Zim uses a meta-data header (see below) and, as John
knows all too well, the markup community can't really come to consensus on
how to support this widely.
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Content-Type: text/x-zim-wiki
Wiki-Format: zim 0.4
Creation-Date: 2011-03-16T16:08:32-04:00
Where would Jaap go to see how this data could be usefully transformed, for
example if reST is the target output?
1. Zim will continue using it's format, but perhaps come up with a plugin
to export to markdown and ...
2. then execute pandoc (as an external utility) for other format
conversions.
Something like this is Jaap's current intention as I understand it.
In my perfect world:
1. Zim would use a subset of pandoc markdown as it's native format. (With
the subset being as large as possible :) .)
2. Pandoc and Zim could agree on a a meta-data format.
3. Pandoc and Zim import/export nicely amongst each other.
Here are my tweaks to the above ideal scenario, with the proviso that I
have a very limited understanding of all this, just thinking out loud
- Zim has user-config options to switch over to reST support rather than
its current proprietary syntax
- probably just globally
- but perhaps per-database
- probably not on a per page basis
- starting out by limiting to the subset of reST supported by Pandoc
- a canonical listing would be useful here
- eventually that could possibly evolve to broader (as full as possible)
support for the Sphinx extensions
- so that Zim could alternatively develop a direct full site-/book-
level export/generate facility
Ideally, to the extent possible/appropriate Pandoc will be able to continue
to accept this as input, in order to facilitate output to targets not
supported by Sphinx directly.
To the extent this is not the case, then the export/conversion tool would
in the meantime need to accept an option to select either full-reST/Sphinx
syntax export or the Pandoc-specific reST subset.
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