>>> sender: "Anselm R. Garbe" date: "Fri, May 19, 2006 at 03:50:23PM +0200" >>> <<<EOQ > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:14:14AM -0400, John Nowak wrote: > > Markdown's main goal is to be readable as plain text, i.e., it should > > have full meaning even if never parsed. I don't have access to the > > edit pages on the plan 9 wiki to compare. A lot of thought has gone > > into Markdown. Depending on what you mean by "the look ... of the > > wiki syntax", it may be worth a look. If you just mean a clean syntax > > for markup, with the readability as a document in and of itself does > > not really matter, Markdown is not the right choice (too verbose > > mainly, perhaps too much freedom). If you want the syntax for the > > wiki to double as distributable text file documentation, you'd be > > hard-pressed to do better than Markdown. (I'd be interested in the > > results of your efforts if you try however.) > > Actually I like this Markdown stuff (didn't knew it before). > Even if it is written in perl, I'd consider to integrate that > into a ruby taggi. (maybe it is easy to convert it to ruby, > dunno). Hehe, we're in luck then: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bluecloth/
There actually is a Markdown clone library for Ruby. I am also willing to help to the website *especially* if it is going to be converted to Ruby, which I personally think it would be a very good choice... One more thing: Congratulations for wmii 3 and a big thank you! :) Have a nice day everyone, Alex _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://wmii.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/wmii
