[Zope-CMF] Re: reStructuredText

[Florent Guillaume]

Jeffrey P Shell  <jeffrey@cuemedia.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> There's no such thing as a plain user.  That's too broad of a term, but 
> I do understand what you're talking about.  I've decided to punt on the 
> issue altogether, use 'newline_to_br' type formatting, and let the 
> structure of headers and such come out of a compound document (the 
> still-not-public FDoc framework), which has special Part editors for 
> lists of links, images, and so on.

newline_to_br is probably a good choice, yes. It alleviates a lot of
problem.

As for the rest of your message, you're right, no feature set will ever
be enough for all users, and those markups are just reinventing bits of
HTML. But that doesn't mean it's not simpler for the users (there is a
lot of redundant typing in writing <b>foo</b> instead of **foo**).

Things are never good enough for users unless we give them rich text
editors or (structured) WYSYWIG à la Xopus or Bitflux.

Anyway what's needed is flexibility in that department, and a
portal_text would be nice indeed. I'm thinking about it.

Florent

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