[Zope-CMF] Re: reStructuredText

Florent Guillaume fg@nuxeo.com
Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:11:05 +0000 (UTC)


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



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