From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2004-04-16T09:58:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Instiki Suggestion (previously called Re: [ANN] BlueCloth: a Markdown implementation for Ruby)


On 15/4/2004, at 7:31 PM, John W. Long wrote:

> In reference to Instiki:
>
> ----- "David Heinemeier Hansson" wrote: -----
>>> Should be quite easy to do: The only line referencing RedCloth is in
>>> revisions.rb.
>>>
>>> The bigger question is whether to include both libraries, but I think
>>> that can safely be answered with 'yes'. (Another 29 KB shouldn't be
>>> exactly critical.)
>>
>> Yearh, definitely. I think it could be pretty cool to have RDoc syntax
>> as well. That way you could very easily copy/paste a bunch of code
>> comments into a wiki and edit it from there. Oh and of course also use
>> that for any wiki if you were so inclined.
>
> Or even better allow the user to run multiple filters on the markup. 
> Drop
> filters in a filters folder and instantly you have access to different 
> kinds
> of markup. You could have check boxes for the filters you want to run 
> on a
> per post basis along with the ability to set the defaults.
>
>

This is the approach rublog takes with its Convertors.  Works very 
nicely.

Chad