From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-04-15T09:57:45+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth, BlueCloth...

Hal Fulton wrote:
> ...OldCloth, NewCloth? (Sorry, I went to a Dr. Seuss exhibit
> here in town.)

That's OK; when I read the subject line, I filled in the rest of it with 
" ... 1 2 3!"
> 
> I want to know what's the best way to manage a file that has
> both text and HTML versions. (Yes, I'm talking about the
> comp.lang.ruby FAQ, which should autopost tomorrow.)
> 
> In the past, I've done this the worst possible way -- keeping
> them manually in sync. I've also done some playing with
> textual browsers and such.
> 
> What's a good/easy way to do this? Lynx, links? RedCloth,
> BlueCloth, PlaidCloth? MarkDown, MarkUp, MarkTwain?

Once upon a time I had a similar issue with the ruby-doc weekly news 
summary.  I wanted an RSS feed, an E-mail posting, and something else I 
cannot recall.

This may have been before Textile/Markdown, but I used something along 
those lines.  I wrote a small app that grabbed a single input file and 
ran it through assorted transformers to produce the .eml file, the RSS, 
and whatever else.

Textile is quite nice for generating HTML; Markdown is handy because it 
is ready-made for plain-text E-mail.

I would opt for Markdown here, though, as it can go straight to 
ruby-talk as-is.



James