[Zope-CMF] Re: reStructuredText

Mark McEahern marklists@mceahern.com
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 12:00:16 -0500


[Florent Guillaume]
> Actually if this is a tool to give to users, both of those are much too
> complicated, and there is too much magic in them. A plain user doesn't
> want things 'like that' to appear in <code>, or things "like that": to
> appear like a link. Way too much magic. Also underline is rarely used,
> stars don't delimit text well enough, etc.

We can disagree about this, but the larger point I think is that the
infrastructure should be there to plug in whatever text handler you want--be
it SimplerStructuredText or what have you.  Rather than having it be
hard-coded to a small subset.

Cheers,

// mark

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