Re: [wmii] New Website?

From: Anselm R. Garbe <garbeam_AT_wmii.de>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 15:50:23 +0200

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).

Regards,

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