OT: my wiki syntax is better than yours (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-06 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Juerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-06 17:50]: side-by-side layouts (extremely useful for showcasing differences between Perl 5 and Perl 6) Good point. * Markdown does not have tables. But it lets you embed verbatim HTML as an escape hatch for constructs that it does not model, and although

Re: OT: my wiki syntax is better than yours (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-06 Thread Matt Todd
There are alternatives to using tables for side-by-side using paragraphs. Simply having one cell for each line, for instance, allows for highlighting green the added lines and red the removed ones, etc. Also realize that it is not necessarily the duty of Textile (et al) to handle that aspect

Re: OT: my wiki syntax is better than yours (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-06 Thread Daniel Hulme
Also realize that it is not necessarily the duty of Textile (et al) to handle that aspect beyond text formatting. A diff or history-revision view goes beyond the context of the tool. I don't think Juerd was talking about tables for the purposes of showing version diffs, but so you can give

Re: OT: my wiki syntax is better than yours (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-06 Thread Juerd
Matt Todd skribis 2006-06-06 16:46 (-0400): There are alternatives to using tables for side-by-side using paragraphs. Simply having one cell for each line, for instance, allows for highlighting green the added lines and red the removed ones, etc. Visually pleasing, but technically incorrect,

OT: my wiki syntax is better than yours (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-06 Thread A. Pagaltzis
* Ben Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-06-07 01:25]: Preferably something duck rst-like? I was wondering why noone had proposed Kwid yet. Doesn’t anyone like it? Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/

Re: OT: my wiki syntax is better than yours (was: $1,000 prize for Perl 6 Wiki written in Perl 6)

2006-06-06 Thread Matt Todd
Juerd, My mistake: I misunderstood what you were saying (probably due to haste). But really, then, there are alternatives to using tables, such as DIVs, as well as simply modifying the parsing step to also parse for this special case in addition to Textile or what-have-you. I guess if I said