>> Questions:
>> * is ANYONE using Markdown successfully with TW?
>
> I think Jeremy was using it extensively for TiddlyWiki5

That's true, but it's not in a state for practical use. You can see
the prototype here:

http://tiddlywiki.com/tiddlywiki5

>> * Why does each wiki insist on reinventing it's own Markup - even if
>> you just used wikipedia systax - why yet another markup? another a
>> YAML - Yet Another MArkup Language

The short answer is "by accident"; hindsight is a wonderful thing, but
not always available in advance.

There's a parallel discussion about the history here:

http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev/browse_thread/thread/fa354a63e9eb4ac8

Cheers

Jeremy


> heh, it is painful. I quite like HTML.
>
> There was an effort to build a union of all wiki markup languages:
>
> http://www.wikicreole.org/
>
>> PS - I am not a programmer and thus blissfully ignorant of Java, and
>> happily so.
>
> You might get a better response to your questions over on the main
> TiddlyWiki list, given this is a smaller group for development of
> TiddlyWiki:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki
>
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