It looks like Markdown predates wikicreole. The files in the zip archive for Markdown are dated 2004. Wikicreole seems to be from 2007.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 12:46:48 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: >The creator might have taken a look at wikicreole before creating something >new. They have already been thru the struggle to create a simple way to >text markup a doc for conversion by the wiki. > >http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0 > >But it is the same concept that a lot of wiki's use. > >On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:49 AM, John McKown wrote: > >> It's called "Markdown". It is interesting/neat because it uses "plain >> text" formatting, such as we often use in email as its source and can >> reformat that into HTML or XHTML. >> >> http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ >> >> I think it is interesting because I like the idea of using text which is >> readable "as is", such as in ISPF edit or browse, and being able to use >> that to create HTML for web pages. I got a pointer to it from "github", >> which is something else that I'm looking at the possibility of using for >> something. But I'm unsure of this other use, so I'm still mulling it over >> in my mind. >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
