Perhaps, but wiki's and various wiki markdowns go back a few more years... into the late 90's.
I am a bit surprised that the author didn't base his work on one of the various wiki markups. Creole was/is an attempt to standardize the wiki markup... thus making it easier to transfer pages / content to other wikis. Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Bill Godfrey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
