Tuesday June 19, 2007 Weblog
Tuesday June 19, 2007 Markup quest followup
Earlier I was discussing various markup languages and two readers suggested Wiki and asciidoc. I'll remind you the benefits of Wiki:- simple markup, easy to learn
- built-in revision control
- produces html natively
- editable within browser
- database driven
- plenty fast
- Markup is not very well defined - different flavours of Wiki have somewhat different markup language.
- Assume that I use browser for editing - and it is usually a very poor choice - any reasonable text editor is better than browser editor. I usually get around this by creating a directory with ascii files with wiki markup and then cut and paste these in the browser.
- database driven - this means that I can't just pick up an ascii file lying around and run it through a bunch of scripts to translate into various output formats.
- Output format is just html. I can't produce high-quality printouts from it.
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Posted by SvenDowideit on June 20, 2007 at 12:15 AM PDT #
Have you heard about Mozex ( http://mozex.mozdev.org ). It's Mozilla/firebox plug-in (Solaris/Linux/Windows/MacOS supported) which let's you edit text field in external editor. You can use macros, syntax highlighting, spell check, whatever ... For example I'm writing this comment using Vim. Oh, and I am the one maintaining Mozex, sorry for the shameless advertisement :)
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Posted by Vlad on June 20, 2007 at 12:31 PM PDT #