Hi, Given that the syntax info page is included in our content I don't understand the question. If we update the documents that people follow then anyone who is not familiar with MarkDown does as they did before - read the docs? Or did I miss something?
On Wed, 18 Oct 2017 at 12:51 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> wrote: > > > On 18/10/17 19:47, Andrew Williams wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am struggling with the factual inaccuracies - phab is not markdown > (they > > call it "similar to" > > https://secure.phabricator.com/book/phabricator/article/remarkup/), > trac is > > not markdown (it is inspired by previous wikis > > https://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiFormatting) but all of this is > > irrelevant to the point. > > > > MarkDown is a common format that many have extended. Case in point - we > > were working on some documentation last night and one of the group did > not > > want to put it in the wiki yet so they uploaded it to github temporarily. > > And you know what? Their web engine automatically formatted it correctly > - > > I then loaded it into dokuwiki with markdown enabled and the same thing - > > the content, heirarchy, markup and syntax highlighting all just worked. > > Whether we like it or not GitHub has changed the way that people think > > about social coding and their adoption of Markdown has had a big impact > on > > people using it as a standard (there are book authoring systems and > > presentation apps using it as the main format). > > > > What I was proposing is to use MarkDown instead of Dokuwiki syntax (due > to > > the benefits already listed) and this has no bearing on the choice of > > dokuwiki or the functionality - it is merely the syntax used. Online > > editing works just as well, page includes also work through "frontmatter" > > much as before. Your assertion that using any other format makes it > > uneditable seems completely untrue - what is causing your concern here? > > > > Is it possible that in this discussion we have confused the word dokuwiki > > as a format and dokuwiki as a product? > > > > Whenever i've manually updated our wiki pages (or any wiki pages) I > always reference the provided help to use the correct syntax, so how > would use ensure that anyone editing the documentation via the wiki > (which is why its a wiki in the first place) will use markdown > formatting rather then wiki formatting? > > -- > > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net > > Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek > SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 > GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- http://andywilliams.me http://ajwillia.ms ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
