Re: Markup wars (was Re: Proposal for groups)

2000-12-07 Thread Alan Burlison
Russ Allbery wrote: I've fiddled with this before and can do text to HTML; the rest is just a question of picking different backends and shouldn't be *too* hard. All the heuristics for parsing text are inherently fragile, but if you follow a standard text formatting style, it works

Re: Markup wars (was Re: Proposal for groups)

2000-12-06 Thread Russ Allbery
Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My own personal favourite for archival format would be to stick with POD until and unless we can cons up something even Plainer than POD. I've got this dream that someday we'll be able to take something --- perhaps based on Damian's Text::Autoformat ---

Re: Markup wars (was Re: Proposal for groups)

2000-12-06 Thread Jarkko Hietaniemi
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 03:59:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Bennett Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My own personal favourite for archival format would be to stick with POD until and unless we can cons up something even Plainer than POD. I've got this dream that someday we'll be able to

Markup wars (was Re: Proposal for groups)

2000-12-05 Thread Bennett Todd
2000-12-05-13:02:56 Nathan Torkington: I say that the person who *does* the work deserves the right to choose what format it is in. So long as we can make navigable webpages out of it, that person can write on a Commodore 64 for all I care. Would you accept a restatement of: as long as

Re: Markup wars (was Re: Proposal for groups)

2000-12-05 Thread Nathan Torkington
Bennett Todd writes: Would you accept a restatement of: as long as whatever it is can be translated into a common format, we can work with it, and the composition of the actual words is far more important than niggling over choices in preferred markup style? Sure, but that begs the question