In other random infrastructural time-filling, I've rewritten the README and CHANGES files a bit into multimarkdown. This keeps them still pretty straightforwardly text as they have been, but gives just a little more structure, and yields plain but better-than-.txt HTML output. From current files:
- http://www.ctwm.org/tmp/README.html - http://www.ctwm.org/tmp/CHANGES.html (also took the chance to make CHANGES reverse-chronological, and fix some typos along the way) The bored reader who's stalking me will notice that I used asciidoc for the bzr-crash-course, which has much nicer HTML output, and wonder why I went with mmd here instead. Basically, asciidoc is great for something plain-text-editable with excellent outputs. But for these files, they're really gonna be mostly _read_ as plaintext, and a little experimenting with CHANGES and asciidoc a while back convinced me that to make the formatted output come out right, I had to change how it was written enough that it no longer read like a plaintext CHANGES file. mmd is pretty plain and dumb in HTML. And I did still have to do a few things that'll look odd if you just look at the plaintext and don't know they're too make the HTML work right. But it gives passable HTML, and doesn't distort the plaintext too much. Maybe someday all those scattered /.*markdown.*/ variants will settle out and one solid one with better formatting will win out; we'd probably only need a minor tweak or two to switch to that then. But it's an improvement for now. -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | [email protected] Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
