From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2005-04-16T00:42:44+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth, BlueCloth...

Florian Gro� <florgro@gmail.com> writes:

> Hal Fulton wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> I'd go with MarkDown through BlueCloth here (though RedCloth recently
> seems to have learned bits of that markup as well), but you could in
> theory as well go back from the HTML to plain text via lynx --dump or
> just go from HTML to MarkDown via
> http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/html2text/

Could someone with RedCloth experience please make some statements on
the Markdown support?  Is it possible to use Markdown only and to what
extent?

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