Good question. Our goals were: - simpler then reST, similar to Markdown but more powerful - support for HTML 5 - extensible - avoid conflits with natural language as much as possible
In reST: .. image:: images/biohazard.png In Markmin [[description images/biohazard.png center 200px]] In reST you cannot specify resize and location, works only for images, there are weird .. :: all over the place. The Markmin syntax works also for embedded videos. On Sep 17, 3:24 am, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I see that markmin is kind of 'standard' markup supported in web2py, but I use > reST markup and lot (even submitted feature request to Instant Press to > support > it), but I wonder how does markmin, in general, compare with reST? > > I noticed that there is no support for footnotes, tables look pretty simple... > > Otoh, the web2py book is written in markmin... > > I read 'Why?' (http://web2py.com/examples/static/markmin.html), but wonder > what > was e.g. wrong with reST which is quite strongly tied with Python community? > > Sincerely, > Gour > > -- > “In the material world, conceptions of good and bad are > all mental speculations…” (Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu) > > http://atmarama.net| Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810 > > signature.asc > < 1KViewDownload
