[Geany] Wiki?

Frank Lanitz frank at xxxxx
Sun Apr 3 14:39:59 UTC 2011


On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 15:29:33 +0200
Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 15:02:07 +0200, Colomban wrote:
> 
> >Le 03/04/2011 14:56, Enrico Tröger a écrit :
> >> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 00:20:06 +0200, Frank wrote:
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> To enforce the decision a bit, are there any objections in using
> >> DokuWiki for wiki.geany.org with the MarkDown and/or
> >> reStructuredText plugins?
> >
> >I don't know MarkDown (well, never used it, I saw some files using
> >it), but I'd be fine with ReST.
> >Would this format(s) be the only one(s) available or would it be 
> >optional? I don't think having pages in 2 different formats is a
> >good idea, but if it's transparent (e.g. we can edit any page using
> >the one we prefer) I second this :)
> 
> Nah, one page has one format. If a page is written in ReST you can't
> edit in MarkDown syntax or DokuWiki's syntax and vice versa.
> 
> I agree that if pages are written in different markup languages this
> is quite confusing. We could maybe say: everything has to be written
> in reStructuredText.
> 
> Though in some cases it might better to use DokuWiki's syntax instead
> of reStructuredText. One example might be to show some code examples
> which can DokuWiki highlight out of the box, e.g.
> 
> <code C>
> int my_fancy_function(char arg1)
> {
>     /* I do very fancy things */
>    int a =0;
>    int b = a;
> 
>    return b;
> }
> </code>
> 
> In reStructuredText this isn't possible, without manually patching,
> AFAIK. There you have only a block with the code.
> 
> So, in the end, I personally, would say we allow both syntax variants,
> accepting that it is a bit confusing.
> The good thing is, you quickly see what syntax a page is in when you
> are editing it because all reStructuredText pages are enclosed by
> <rst> tags.

Through away the rst stuff and use DokuWiki syntax. Simple, fast and
consistent solution for the wiki. 

Cheers, 
Frank
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