[Zope-CMF] Re: reStructuredText

Ricky West west@west-household.dns2go.com
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:42:48 -0400


Florent Guillaume wrote:

>Regarding StructuredText / reStructuredText:
>
>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.
>
>STX/reSTX is good for power users, but that's hardly the majority of my
>clients' users. What I want (and will end up writing at some point) is a
>very very simplified form of STX, that provides headers, paragraphes,
>lists, links, but with *very* explicit markup.
>
>For those who read French, here's an example of the syntax another
>PHP-based system (SPIP) uses:
>http://arcoweb.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=125
>
>Florent
>
>
>
Another simple "wiki-esque" markup language is TWiki at 
http://www.twiki.org.

Ricky West