From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-04-11T02:31:40+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth bug and suggestion

Dave,

> Any reason you good folks didn't just use the RDoc markup library for 
> all this?

No good reason. I like trying shiny, new things; thus my 
experimentation with Textile and RedCloth. It looks like Textile is too 
simple for most of my needs.

I hadn't thought of using RDoc, but that makes sense. Right now, I'm 
working on a talk and I'm tired of typing "<ul><li>...</li></ul>" or 
"\begin{itemize} \item ... \end{itemize}".

>  Adding backends to generate LaTeX (if you need it) is trivial (I've 
> got one lying around here somewhere that I wrote for Andy).

I will eventually publish the talk on my Web site, so I want one output 
format to be XHTML and to use my style sheet.

I hadn't yet played with writing a new RDoc back end. It's time, but 
only after I finish writing the talk. I've been procrastinating for too 
long now.

> The markup library is independent of RDoc itself: I use it in RubLog, 
> for example.

Jim
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"I don't see why not. It's got bloody well everything else."
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