On Wed, 05 May 2010 16:53:27 +0200 >>>>>> "Twylite" == Twylite wrote:
Twylite> Plugins are of limited value. The repository becomes Twylite> non-portable except to other Fossil installations with the Twylite> same plugins. The end of that road is that everyone has to Twylite> have all the markup plugins, and a significant part of the Twylite> value of Fossil is lost. Yeah, you're right. Let's forget plugin idea. Twylite> The only thing Markdown offers is a claim of being easier for Twylite> authors to work with than HTML. I say a claim because there Twylite> are plenty of people who disagree, in particular those who are Twylite> blessed by having to work with five different markup languages Twylite> in a day. Hmm, maybe I'm spoiled by Pandoc's extensions...check http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown-vs.standard-markdown) Twylite> Markdown does NOT have automation features that are common to Twylite> most Wikis, and essential for creating complex documents (e.g. Twylite> Table of Contents, notices & callouts, numbered headings). Heh, Pandoc has "-N or --number-sections" option which "causes sections to be numbered in LaTeX, ConTeXt, or HTML output. By default, sections are not numbered." :-) Twylite> That said, if you really want Markdown, why don't you use Twylite> something like Attacklab's Showdown Twylite> (http://attacklab.net/showdown/), which is a Markdown Twylite> implementation in JavaScript. Write your Wiki pages in plain Twylite> text, include Showdown in the site header, and with a little Twylite> fiddling you should be able to have the Markdown rendered into Twylite> HTML on the browser. This sounds like something which Joshua wants to do. Thanks for the input. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapicina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ----------------------------------------------------------------
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