Hi, On 09:59 PM, Gour wrote: > Richard> There is exists no wiki markup that will make everybody > Richard> happy. Any choice of wiki markup will leave some users > Richard> grumbling that a different choice should have been made. > > I'm very well aware of it...and not knowledgable enough to know if > some kind of plugin system supporting different markup would work. > Plugins are of limited value. The repository becomes non-portable except to other Fossil installations with the same plugins. The end of that road is that everyone has to have all the markup plugins, and a significant part of the value of Fossil is lost. > The usage of Markdown/Pandoc for end-user docs is quite appropriate > considering that one can convert Markdown markup into > HTML/LaTeX/ConTeXt etc. which would make Markdown excellent choice for > wiki format in Fossil. > The only thing Markdown offers is a claim of being easier for authors to work with than HTML. I say a claim because there are plenty of people who disagree, in particular those who are blessed by having to work with five different markup languages in a day.
Markdown does NOT have automation features that are common to most Wikis, and essential for creating complex documents (e.g. Table of Contents, notices & callouts, numbered headings). That said, if you really want Markdown, why don't you use something like Attacklab's Showdown (http://attacklab.net/showdown/), which is a Markdown implementation in JavaScript. Write your Wiki pages in plain text, include Showdown in the site header, and with a little fiddling you should be able to have the Markdown rendered into HTML on the browser. Regards, Twylite _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
