Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST

2009-04-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 09:56:21AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Osamu Aoki writes: > > > As I checked popularity of similar plain text formatters via popcon, > > > > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch12.en.html#listoftoolstohigghtplaintextdata ... > The correct package to

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST (Was: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data)

2009-04-29 Thread Andreas Tille
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: Well, if you just keep them as transitional period without highlighting them as "deprecated" in some way, you will end up with them forever. We all know how slow we are with this kind of transitions :) ACK Given that the current semantics was to

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST (Was: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data)

2009-04-29 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:13:14AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Yes, me too. But somewhere in this longish discussion it was > suggested to find a solution for currently existing descriptions and > ditch these cases later. I do not want to spend my time to seek for > the URL of this mail in the

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST

2009-04-28 Thread Ben Finney
Osamu Aoki writes: > As I checked popularity of similar plain text formatters via popcon, > > > http://people.debian.org/~osamu/pub/getwiki/html/ch12.en.html#listoftoolstohigghtplaintextdata > > asciidoc 0.8% installed > markdown 0.4% installed > rest2web 0.1% installed The correct package

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST (Was: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data)

2009-04-28 Thread Andreas Tille
On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Gunnar Wolf wrote: But I'd prefer dropping 'o' as a bullet marker. Yes, me too. But somewhere in this longish discussion it was suggested to find a solution for currently existing descriptions and ditch these cases later. I do not want to spend my time to seek for the UR

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST (Was: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data)

2009-04-28 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Andreas Tille dijo [Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:51:56PM +0200]: > 3. s/^(\s*)[.o]\s+/\1* / > This enables rendering lists using 'o' and '.' as bullets I know 'o' is a character visually similar to a bullet... But I would really prefer to discourage its use as such, specially if now lists will b

Re: Comparing MarkDown and reST (Was: Consistent formating long descriptions as input data)

2009-04-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:51:56PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> I'm happy to support whatever markup language people want to use. ... > I used for markdown ... > and for reST FYI: As I checked popularity of similar plain text formatters via popcon