From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" <vshepelev@...>
Date: 2007-04-12T06:40:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] ClothRed (HTML to Textile)

From: Gary Wright [mailto:gwtmp01@mac.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 12:33 AM
>
>
>On Apr 11, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Victor "Zverok" Shepelev wrote:
>> I mean, for conversions like Markdown <=> Textile, XHTML as
>> intermediate is
>> slightly too funny.
>
>Yes, but that is because XHTML is too funny.
>
>Markdown exists to generate XHTML.
>Textile exists to generate XHTML.
>
>If you've got reverse translations also, then XHTML is *already* working
>as the intermediate.  Why do you need yet another format?
>

May be you're right. Only can I say that for other "rich formats" (like PDF
or OpenOffice) generation conversions textile->pdf can be simpler than
XHTML->pdf (thus, it breaks rule for "the single intermediate format"
through chains like Markdown->XHTML->Textile->PDF). What do you think?

V.