From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2002-01-12T07:02:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RDoc Alpha-6 available

jbrunjes@ctr.lacity.org (Jim Brunjes) writes:

> I see some new requests related to hyperlinking within Simple Markup. 
> I'd like to second the idea of being able to link to an external URL
> or to embed an image in the document.

You can! It looks for http:// ftp:, mailto: and www. If an HTTP url
ends with .gif, .png, etc, it embeds an image.


> I'd also recommend that all headers (=, ==, etc.) be the target of
> internal hyper-links.  For example, I made a longer Simple Markup
> document and have code that inserts a hyperlinked table of contents at
> the beginning of the document.

Good idea

> I'd also like to see a convention something like "any line starting
> with '---' becomes a horizontal rule".

OK - I'll add that to the pile.

Thanks for the feedback


Dave