Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] python-markdown, and wikis.

[Waylan L. <wa...@gm...>]

Blake,

On Feb 4, 2008 7:50 PM, Blake Winton <bw...@la...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> uh, you don't know me, but I'm investigating switching a home-grown wiki
> parser over to use Markdown syntax instead.  Since everything else is
> written in Python, I'm mainly considering python-markdown and
> python-markdown2.  I think you guys have the edge in terms of my being
> able to add wiki links, and generically extend it,

I'd say you nailed it. That about sums up the difference. With
python-markdown2, you'd need to hack the core to add or change
behavior. Personally, I'd much rather use python-markdown's extension
api. In fact if you run into a few dead ends, let us know. We may be
able to improve the api to make more things possible.

> but I was wondering
> if you had any suggestions of wikis that were using your project?

I'm aware of a few. There's one I don't remember the name of that has
added all sorts of ridiculous (IMHO) macros to the syntax. All I
remember is that it's built on the Django framework. Another django
wiki, which I'm quite impressed with is monk-wiki[1], although its
still in development. The source code is available though.

I've copied the list[2]. Perhaps others will be able to point you to
some more. Please let us know what you come up with. I'm been
interested in building a wiki that uses markdown for some time. I just
haven't had the spare time.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/monk-wiki/
[2]: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=python-markdown-discuss

>
> Oh, and do you handle definition lists?  The examples I saw were all of
> the form:
>
> definition term
> :  definition description
>
> If you don't handle them, how hard do you think it would be to create a
> plugin that would handle them?
>

Unfortunately, that's the one thing I haven't tried to tackle yet. I
find the whole 'description gets the markup (:), not the term' a
little hard to wrap my mind around. I keep getting the feeling that
we'll need to make some changes to the core to get that one to work,
although I could be wrong. If you have any suggestions, I'm game.





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