From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2004-04-22T23:59:33+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RedCloth 2.0.7 -- A Textile Humane Web Text Generator

David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

> 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?

I'm not too worried about extending Textile, to be honest.  There are a 
wealth of inaccuracies and loose ends on Dean Allen's Textile site. 
Which leads me to believe that it will likely continue to be incomplete.

I'm not keen on changing any existing syntax.  But adding horizontal 
rules and shortcut code for <pre><code> would be absolutely fine.

> 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.

I really like your sidebar reference.  You could just add a popup link 
to the quick reference.  I'll work on trimming down the full reference, 
though.

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