I've been workin' on a plaintext markup syntax for the purpose of providing
rich
formatting capabilities in article submission to laypeople. A syntax
similar to
the variants used in wikies, but much more consistent, much more coherent,
and
(I would say) much more intelligently designed. I'll start implementing the
begins of logic and regular expressions for parsing the syntax very soon. I
just want to get some preliminary feedback on what I've come up with thus
far.
There is a lot about Wikitax where I'm still not set in stone, or where I'm
questioning myself, or where I just haven't thought much about how to solve
that
particular problem. I could use other minds in helpin' to flesh out the
final
stages of Wikitax. Anybody wanna take a look and offer ideas, suggestions,
additions, etc.? I've put quite a lot of thought into the syntax, and why
things should be the way they are. Hopefully it's pretty obvious to
everybody,
but I would really appreciate input and help. I figure the more minds that
attack this problem, the better the solution will be.
Out of all the wiki syntaxes, I enjoy Wikipedia's syntax the most. I
remember
the first time I came across a WikiWikiWeb. The early syntax was just shit.
And most wikies still have really crappy syntax. Even though Wikipedia has
evolved the syntax in a number of nice ways, it still feels lacking in many
areas. It would also be nice to have a specification to standardize
plaintext
markups: a syntax so consistant, other projects will pick it up and use it.
I started work on this because I'm doing a lot of development on a second
generation community-developed/organized open publishing content management
system for Independent Media Centers. The particular codebase I'm working
on is
going to be a sort of Wikipedia + scoop + multimedia galleries/archives +
weblogs + newswire + Kronolith + etc.--all tightly rolled into one nice,
easy-to-use, and consistent package.
You'll find an attached text/plain, Wikitax.txt. The preliminary
specification
is contained therein.
If you're sincere about contributing, see also:
<http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitax>
Peace out, g-money homey lokes,
Derek
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rich
formatting capabilities in article submission to laypeople. A syntax
similar to
the variants used in wikies, but much more consistent, much more coherent,
and
(I would say) much more intelligently designed. I'll start implementing the
begins of logic and regular expressions for parsing the syntax very soon. I
just want to get some preliminary feedback on what I've come up with thus
far.
There is a lot about Wikitax where I'm still not set in stone, or where I'm
questioning myself, or where I just haven't thought much about how to solve
that
particular problem. I could use other minds in helpin' to flesh out the
final
stages of Wikitax. Anybody wanna take a look and offer ideas, suggestions,
additions, etc.? I've put quite a lot of thought into the syntax, and why
things should be the way they are. Hopefully it's pretty obvious to
everybody,
but I would really appreciate input and help. I figure the more minds that
attack this problem, the better the solution will be.
Out of all the wiki syntaxes, I enjoy Wikipedia's syntax the most. I
remember
the first time I came across a WikiWikiWeb. The early syntax was just shit.
And most wikies still have really crappy syntax. Even though Wikipedia has
evolved the syntax in a number of nice ways, it still feels lacking in many
areas. It would also be nice to have a specification to standardize
plaintext
markups: a syntax so consistant, other projects will pick it up and use it.
I started work on this because I'm doing a lot of development on a second
generation community-developed/organized open publishing content management
system for Independent Media Centers. The particular codebase I'm working
on is
going to be a sort of Wikipedia + scoop + multimedia galleries/archives +
weblogs + newswire + Kronolith + etc.--all tightly rolled into one nice,
easy-to-use, and consistent package.
You'll find an attached text/plain, Wikitax.txt. The preliminary
specification
is contained therein.
If you're sincere about contributing, see also:
<http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikitax>
Peace out, g-money homey lokes,
Derek
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