Hi Josiah > I'm a pragmatist. > > I simply do NOT believe that the 600 or so strictures that CommonMarkup > syntax say are essential are actually essential for most practical work. It > looks like a tall-story. When you look into it is boils down to something > more cope-able, I think.
That’s rather my point: a putative declarative meta-markup couldn’t achieve 100% compatibility, but that even partial compatibility would be useful. But that’s not what Mario originally proposed. > I am pretty convinced that TW can get very close to a "universal markup" for > coping with most of the the variant Wiki-text versions in real use. And I > already know from playing with BJ's "pre-parser" that that there is immense > flex in what TW can do towards creating "User Defined Markup" quite easily. > > On this particular issue I'm happy to help as its one of the few things I > have competence on. Great, some concrete proposals would be useful at this point Best wishes Jeremy. > > Best wishes > Josiah > > On Tuesday, 12 December 2017 16:42:00 UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > Mario said: > >> we would make commonmark [1] markdown [2] a 100% subset [3] of the >> TiddlyWiki syntax? > > > I’d be very interested if that were possible. It would potentially allow us > to dispense with the current Markdown parser, which has significantly limited > capabilities compared to native wikitext. > > I also agree with Josiah’s point that a worthy longer term goal is to make > TiddlyWiki a meta-markup system that allows end users to create their own > markup parse rules. However, the complexity of the CommonMark specification > suggests to me that it wouldn’t be possible to create a practical parser > entirely declaratively. In other words, I think the complexities of arbitrary > markup may well require arbitrary computational capabilities to parse. > > But, of course, even if we couldn’t create a 100% spec compliant CommonMark > parser declaratively, it would still be a very useful thing to have. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/94321674-7dca-464a-abb2-aee48340beea%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/94321674-7dca-464a-abb2-aee48340beea%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/F8AC3C5E-CFDA-4744-88AE-AA58B1717745%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
