Eric Armstrong wrote: (01)
> reST is unique is that it really codifies existing text
> conventions, that I automatically use. (02)
ReStructuredText was one of the notation systems discussed during the
evolution of the PurpleWiki markup. The problem we had at the time is that
recognizing multi-paragraph constructs such as underlined headings (they
will allow almost any sort and determine levels dynamically based on the
order in which underlines are encountered) is not nearly as easy as dealing
with each paragraph (line in Perl) as a single element. (03)
Do you like reST well enough to consider doing a version of PurpleWiki to
use it or a set of enhancements that implement the features you like best
about it? (04)
Thanks, (05)
Garold (Gary) L. Johnson (06)
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From: Eric Armstrong [mailto:Eric.Armstrong@Sun.COM]
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 2:42 PM
To: yak@collab.blueoxen.net
Subject: [yak@collab] Re: who here blogs? (07)
Bill Seitz wrote: (08)
> There are a number of pseudo-markup alternatives. Textile is fairly
> popular - I pointed to the plugin for blosxom...
>
> Not unlike writing in a wiki!
>
Yup. But they got it wrong, unfortunately. (09)
reST is unique is that it really codifies existing text
conventions, that I automatically use. (010)
So *this* is in italics, in reST. But it's bold in Textile.
And _this_ is underlined in reST. But italicized in Textile. (011)
I'm not sure how the put in an end-header, but they start
with (012)
h2 Some title (013)
h3 A subtitle (014)
or something like that. (015)
reST recognizes this: (016)
Some title
========== (017)
A subtitle
---------- (018)
Notice how the reST version is clearly delineated, as you
scan the page from across the room. (019)
And reST processes indentation for blockquotes, instead
of adding markup. The list goes on. (020)
My conclusion was that reST really "got it right" -- no
mean feat. (021)
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