From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-02-07T07:33:07+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RedCloth 2.0 -- A Textile Humane Web Text Generator

Yura Kloubakov wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: why the lucky stiff [mailto:ruby-talk@whytheluckystiff.net]
>>
>>RedCloth is a module for using Textile in Ruby.  Textile is a text 
>>format.  A very simple text format.  Another stab at making readable 
>>text that can be converted to HTML.
>>    
>>
>
>How does it compare to reStructuredText?
>http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
>
>Yura.
>  
>
I'm not terribly familiar with reStructuredText, so another might be 
better suited.  reST is a more expansive (markup for definitions, field 
lists) and makes use of footnotes for linking.  reST is also bit more 
focused on making the text look like it's just formatted text.  You 
still often have to use <pre> in Textile.

However, Textile is geared more toward HTML generation, so there are 
hooks into using style sheets.  Also, tables are simpler.  The HTML 
generator does smart quotes, title/alt tags, citations, acronyms.  I 
think there are ways of doing this in reST.

reST is probably a better overall design, especially if you want PDF 
output for your text.  Textile is great for HTML stuffs.

_why