Re: [wmii] New Website?

On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:07:11PM +0300, Alexandru E. Ungur wrote:
> >>> 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/

Cool. Actually it is even smaller, the bluecloth.rb has 676
SLOC, the Markdown has 805 lines.

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