From: John Gabriele <jmg3000@...>
Date: 2006-08-30T23:36:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Dr. Dobb's dumps on RedCloth

On 8/30/06, Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@nasa.gov> wrote:
> David Vallner wrote:
> >
> > I sometimes prefer Markdown or Mediawiki syntax, since Textile headings
> > are ghastly. But Textile's quick CSS modifiers for margins and paragraph
> > indentation are very neat, and on the whole it's a bit richer.
>
> FYI, RedCloth 3.x does (some) Markdown too,
>
>   [snip]

I've tried RedCloth, but IIRC it wouldn't let me tell it only process
Markdown (and not Textile markup) so I switched to BlueCloth. I got
the impression that, with RedCloth, Markdown is a bit of a 2nd-class
citizen.

The BlueCloth source looks to be fairly straightforward (maybe a
fairly direct recoding of John Gruber's own Perl version?), is only
one source code file, and is pretty well-commented.

---John