From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T16:15:06+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth issues

Louis J Scoras wrote:

/ ...

>> And he can't figure out why, and I can. So I explained it.
> 
> Sure.  But I disagree that it's because the scheme he proposed is
> unworkable.  You're not suggesting that harder problems haven't been
> solved are you?

The fact that much harder problems has been solved isn't an argument that
this one has been. :)

> 
>> No the problem is his having chosen RedCloth to try to solve a Textile
>> problem, which was originally meant to solve an HTML problem, which was
>> originally meant to solve a general markup problem.
> 
> Don't you think you're being a little unfair?  RedCloth doesn't try to
> solve a textile problem.  They are both the same layer.  Similarly,
> HTML is a very real target.
> 
>     Textile -> HTML

All except the part where it didn't work.

> 
>> I'll say -- there is no chance that this elaborate, multilayered scheme
>> will work. That part is very simple.
> 
> It can work, and it does work.  This isn't the first project to use
> textile.

You are arguing that it should work in principle, even if it doesn't work in
fact. And I agree.

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> I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree.  I don't think that
> this "scheme" is overly complicated.  Just because there might be a
> bug in the implementation doesn't mean that the problem is too
> complicated, nor that the tool is broken beyond fixing.

Yes. Agreed. My point is that there are much simpler solutions.

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Paul Lutus
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