From: David Heinemeier Hansson <david@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T19:30:22+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RedCloth 2.0.7 -- A Textile Humane Web Text Generator

> I've wanted this feature to work right for awhile.  It took a rewrite 
> of the list handler, but it's all there now.

This is excellent. That was one of the reasons I thought about trying 
out Markdown for something significant. That an the --- => <hr> (which 
is especially important for wikis) and easy way of doing <pre><code> 
blocks. Perhaps we could get Dean to let the next version of Textile be 
inspired back?

One of the reasons I really like Textile over Markdown, though, is how 
easy it is to do quick web-design in it with styles on the elements. 
That's really a powerful notion that I use to great effect on the 
instiki.org front page.

> Again, new reference up at http://hobix.com/textile/.  True thanks!

Very, very nice. Only nitpick is that perhaps the page is just a wee 
bit wide? How does this look on a 800x600 or 1024x768 screen? 
Otherwise, I'm thinking of including this with the next version of 
Instiki instead of linking out.

Perhaps someone (Granger?) could be so kind as to duplicate the effort 
for Markdown? And something similar for RDoc would rock. All three 
syntaxes presented in the same format. Yes please :).

If you want to play around with the Mardown and RDoc syntax, btw, I've 
created a sandbox for Instiki running each:

Markdown sandbox: http://blue.instiki.org/
RDoc sandbox: http://green.instiki.org/
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