Re: [podwiki] table support

[David A. B. <Br...@ac...>]

On Tue, 4 May 2004, Thomas Linden wrote:

> I took a look at twiki (http://twiki.org) and surprisingly its
> formatting looks very similar as my WikiShorthand formatter :-)

Yes, I'm familiar with TWiki. I used to use it;  I went from TWiki to UseMod
to TikiWiki and now to PodWiki. I still like many of the things in TWiki; in
fact, PodWiki reminds me of TWiki in some respects.

> so, I'm thinking about adding a TwikiShorthand formatter, which can
> be twiki compatible.

Should be relatively easy. Go for it!

> And, as I think of the possibilities, another thing comes to mind:
> PodWiki could be used as a kind of "meta-wiki" tool, which understands
> most markups. In the future there could be a convert function which
> converts pages imported from another wiki to POD (or the default
> Shorthand markup, see podwiki.conf).

Ahhhh, yes. Since I have this history of several wikis, the external formatter
concept of PodWiki was very attractive. I've gone through several conversions,
none of which came out quite right, and I didn't want to convert again by
hand; hence the Tiki formatter. It might be nice to have a conversion
function. Although, I have to say that the POD format itself I find a little
too "vertical" for my taste. The philosophy of TWiki I liked was that writing
a wiki page was "as easy as writing an email." I probably won't ever write
(large amounts) of POD wiki pages; I'll stick to the shorthand world.

One of the things that I've thought might be nice is to have the formatters
return text to Runner, rather than printing. Then, Runner is the only one that
has to know how to break up the paragraphs, do the include processing, etc.
So, it does become a meta-wiki tool in that respect.


On another topic, you might want to take a look at the Changelog to see what
I've been up to over the past 12 hours or so. The bugfix on included pages is
actually pretty major; I was apalled that I hadn't caught that earlier. I must
have only looked at POD format pages that did the includes. Let me know if
my changes aren't clear.

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David A. Bright
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