Garold (Gary) L. Johnson wrote: (01)
> 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?
>
I like it well enough to have strongly considered doing that very
thing. (There are a couple of hacks I'd like to add, like automatically
recognizing http://xxx as a link, if it doesn't already (it may). (02)
It's a Python hack, though. I've had the thought of playing with that
language, and even downloaded it. But have yet to learn it. (03)
It does *so* much, that a Java hack would take months. On the
other hand, most of what it does is overkill for the majority
of simple translations. (04)
Their goal was to author all documents in plain text, and maintain
them in plain text. My goal is different -- to take a rant like
this and convert to HTML rapidly. If I want to add images and
tables and things, I'll use DreamWeaver and do it WYSWIG. (05)
For that, a much smaller subset of reST is needed. But when I
began to address the parsing issues, I realized there were
really quite a few major problems to solve -- and since the
Python version already solved them, it made the most sense
to use that. (06)
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