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 reaso

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 b

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::Autoforma

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 questi

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 wh