On 11/28/09 14:27, Nandan wrote: > While I did not find stx2any to be very natural to use, I explicitly > support some form of text-based format (not html) as the canonical > document format. LaTeX is very nice, but significantly suboptimal for
I was not suggesting that. Back then, I wished it were in Lisp. > authoring. Markdown only handles trivial authoring. > > IIRC stx2any's author examined markdown, wiki, pandoc et al and > combined the best features, also those systems do not have the > generality of stx2any. Where stx is lacking is in the number of > convertors/formatters available. You'll have to install python to work > with it. > > Why not write a wiki-engine in weblocks on stx2any? That would be the > best of all worlds. At the moment I like scribble best (at > http://docs.plt-scheme.org/scribble/index.html). Where stx2any uses a > perl-ish shorthand, scribble makes it readably sexp-y. > > My 2 cents.. It looks decent... my 2c below. Its the good old content and formatting battle... when I write, I've been spoiled by word processors. Blobs of text come out, some bold, some italics, some tables. HTML does that well enough. Blobs of HTML can be strung together, even recursively embedded. Our old CMS had pagelets and pages that were objects and serialization to render to a browser. Pagelets were html blobs written in tinymce. Now we have weblocks. I'm porting my code to it. But I cannot wait for that, I needed a wiki, so I put up Tikiwiki. Just add content, those blobs can then get copied and pasted over to a more official documentation format. My 2c... Cheers, ---Venkat. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weblocks" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/weblocks?hl=en.
