On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:34:00PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > > On 12-Apr-08, at 6:16 PM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:54:40AM -0400, Brian McKee wrote: > >> > >>On 9-Apr-08, at 11:12 PM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > >>>Hey Everyone, > >>> > >>>Inspired by the easy to use wiki syntax, I've been looking around > >>>for similar markups that allow for basic "rich text" output. > >>> > >> > >>I actually use a wiki currently - tiddlyWiki - and I edit the text > >>in it with Vim using the It's All Text plugin for Firefox. > >>Since it's a one page portable wiki (no server required) it's > >>completely cross platform - I can carry it around on a USB stick and > >>edit it where ever I'm at. > >>It's not a perfect solution, but it doesn't bug me so much I've > >>replaced it yet. > > > >Mixing code and data is not my preffered method. > > > > It's not really - Is a pdf file mixing data and code? or latex?
LaTeX and PostScript (though not PDF) allow a similar the same level of programability that HTML+Javascript (as used in many browsers) does. It is not often abused as in the way it is done in in tiddlyWiki . If you have complex (La)TeX code in your document, you'd probably make it a separate style / package. > Wiki syntax is less 'code' then those - and the raw data is still > there as entered when you hit the edit button the next time. What happens when you find a bug in the code that implements the interpetation of the wiki? And how do I know that the document you give me doesn't really log all of my details to your server? I have to re-inspect the code with each and every document. It is javascript that is run locally on my system and hence my browser assumes it is a bit more trustworthy. Indeed tiddlyWiki.org is hosted on a mediawiki. > > I use it because I've come to rely pretty heavily on the easy linking > to both internal and external data that wiki's provide. > > Latex and AsciiDoc (I looked very quickly) have that 'compile as a > separate step' process I find irritating. My output is in the > format I need it in as soon as I hit the 'done' button, and still > ready to be edited when I hit the 'edit' button. Granted, I don't > have the wide range of output options provided by markup/compile > cycle setups like Latex, but I don't need them.... But then again, everybody must use your code to view your data. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
