[Tb] Textile for HTML export

> On Oct 12, 2004, at 4:48 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
>> Have you considered Markdown instead?
>
> I had actually considered Markdown first. I like the faux-markup
> philosophy of making things look "correct" even in plain text. However,
> I couldn't find any note of its ability to do good typography. I didn't
> know about Smartypants, so maybe I'll have to give it another look. I'd
> probably be happy with *just* smartypants, really. I didn't plan on
> doing much inline markup.
>
> Still, Textile appears to do more of this kind of thing (e.g. making
> 4x6 into 4__AT__#215;6). And I rather like the idea of using one
> preflighting script instead of two.
>
> Textile can do tables (not that I'm planning on it). It will also do
> (C), (R), and (TM).
>
> My *other* reason is that Red Cloth is in Ruby, which is my tinkering
> project at the moment...
HI,

I am also playing with Ruby, and I also came across markdown and textile.

My take is that these should be TB enhancements.
:-O (I don't meant Ruby...)

It seems to me they have major advantages over what we get now with text and
HTML export-
1) reversible (certainly true for markdown*). This means we could have an
import from HTML page into a TB note with formatting that could be
regenerated again on export. This would bring a lot of leverage for snippet
collectors.
2) much better shot at import text from other places, written on phones etc.
3) possibility of improved layout from text export view
4) each is a simple and capable and consistent set of rules which are easy
to learn.

Of course I can see why Eastgate might not like this idea but perhaps if we
say 'please do it' they will think about it carefully.
They already took the brave step of opening the TB files themselves to XML
at a time when few applications did, and I think it is now very clear that
that feature is a major selling point for TB.
The above initiatives are more about fixing a way to move between the two
codings than to present one particular tool or language. So they could be
implemented with proprietary routines

What do you think?

Dave

* the reversal program is not called markdown but something else

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