Re: DokuWiki but in Markdown

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> Chris Green (12025-01-22):
> > I wrote a RestructuredText plugin for Dokuwiki that means (not
> > surprisingly!) that you can use RestructuredText markup in Dokuwiki.
> > You can even simply name a text file with a .rst suffix and the plugin
> > will recognise it and treat the whole file as RestructuredText, no
> > need for any Dokuwiki markup at all within the text.
> > 
> > The plugin is available from the Dokuwiki site:-
> > 
> >     https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:rst
> > 
> > It says it's not been updated in more than 2 years which is true but I
> > think it still works OK, if not I'm happy to fix it if needed.
> > 
> > Does this help any? RestructuredText is more like MarkDown than
> > Dokuwiki markup is, I think.  
> > 
> > It was a very simple plugin to write, you might find it easy to copy
> > and change to work with MarkDown.  Is there a simple single executable
> > program to convert MarkDown to HTML (as there is for RestructuredText)?
> 
> Thanks, but it does not work, same problem as with the existing Markdown
> plugins. I am not asking my users to write <rst> or <markdown> in their
> files, I am not having my users disagree because one did and the other
> did not and now they want to edit each other's page.
> 
> Plus, I suspect just like the markdowku plugin, the one that does not
> require explicitly saying <markdown>, the buttons still produce custom
> syntax.
> 
Yes to your last comment, while the content of the .rst file is pure
RestructuredText of course the Dokuwiki editor when you edit a page
will still be the Dokuwiki editor.  I assume that's what you mean by
"the buttons still produce custom syntax.".

I don't think you're going to find what you want somehow! :-)

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Chris Green
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