Replace language for wikifsD1364586748Aa#The wikifs(4) in both Plan 9 and Inferno understand a very small set#of cues when generating HTML. That set can be limiting. It should be#replaced with something better, like Markdown.##Markdown engines in C already exist, and have been ported to Plan 9#via APE. For proper integration this should likely be turned into a#native parser, but that should be a relatively easy task.##Doing this for the Inferno wikifs would be a bit more work, as no#Markdown implementation exists in Limbo today (although there are#similar things).##These two together should make a good summer-sized project. Any#extra time could be spent converting the existing pages (or, even#better, writing a conversion program).##It is not particularly important that the language understood by#wikifs be markdown, per se, but it would be very nice if it was one#of the widely understood similar alternatives (rather than a new#creation). It is more important that the language understood by the#Plan 9 and Inferno wikifs implementaitons be the same (or, at the#very minimum, one a proper subset of the other).##LINKS##The original writeup on [Markdown |#http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/], including the initial#perl implementation.##[Discount | http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/], a#Markdown implementation with Plan 9 support (via APE) in the#mainline tree.##[textmangle | https://bitbucket.org/mjl/textmangle], a Limbo#implementation of a markdown-like library (with moderately different#syntax).##[Pandoc |#http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown] and#[MultiMarkdown | http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/] are two#possible extensions worth considering. There are lots of others.##[Textile | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)]#and [reStructuredText |#http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText] are alternatives to#Markdown which might be suitable, although neither is in as#widespread use.#