Re: Normalize PicoLisp Wiki Syntax

2012-11-25 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Alexander Burger writes: Hi Alex and José, > in addition what you have already discussed: > >> mark-up syntax is usually symmetric, i.e. the end-tag looks like a >> 180° mapping of the start-tag (e.g. the JSP Scriplet <% ... %>). >> >> This makes parsing the file and constructing regexp much e

Re: Normalize PicoLisp Wiki Syntax

2012-11-25 Thread Alexander Burger
Hi Thorsten and José, in addition what you have already discussed: > mark-up syntax is usually symmetric, i.e. the end-tag looks like a > 180° mapping of the start-tag (e.g. the JSP Scriplet <% ... %>). > > This makes parsing the file and constructing regexp much easier, because > its always cl

Re: Normalize PicoLisp Wiki Syntax

2012-11-24 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
José Romero writes: > It's not an improvement, and not worth it, imo. The current wiki syntax > is pretty much a lightweight variant of TeX, Emacs can fontify TeX just > fine, so the issue is in the emacs mode, not the syntax. It does look pretty ugly, I agree, and I wasn't sure myself if it wou

Re: Normalize PicoLisp Wiki Syntax

2012-11-24 Thread José Romero
On Sat, 24 Nov 2012 17:29:13 +0100 Thorsten Jolitz wrote: > > Hi List, > > when writing the picolisp-wiki-mode for Emacs, I began to understand > why mark-up syntax is usually symmetric, i.e. the end-tag looks like a > 180° mapping of the start-tag (e.g. the JSP Scriplet <% ... %>). > > This

Normalize PicoLisp Wiki Syntax

2012-11-24 Thread Thorsten Jolitz
Hi List, when writing the picolisp-wiki-mode for Emacs, I began to understand why mark-up syntax is usually symmetric, i.e. the end-tag looks like a 180° mapping of the start-tag (e.g. the JSP Scriplet <% ... %>). This makes parsing the file and constructing regexp much easier, because its alw