<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"><head>	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />	<meta name="keywords" content="9p, 9p2000, research, Plan 9, Inferno, Unix, Open Source, Bell Labs" />	<meta name="description" content="Open source distributed operating system Plan 9 from Bell Labs." />	<link rel="stylesheet" href="/wiki-style.css" media="all" type="text/css" />	<title>Replace language for wikifs (Diff)</title></head><body><h1><a name="top"></a>Replace language for wikifs <i>-Diff-</i></h1> <div class='body'> <!-- ***************************** --> <hr /><div class='diff_head'><a href="index.html">Fri Mar 29 15:52:28 EDT 2013</a>, a</div><hr />The<a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/4/wikifs"><i>wikifs</i>(4)</a>inbothPlan9andInfernounderstandaverysmallsetofcueswhengeneratingHTML.Thatsetcanbelimiting.Itshouldbereplacedwithsomethingbetter,likeMarkdown.<p class='para'>MarkdownenginesinCalreadyexist,andhavebeenportedtoPlan9viaAPE.Forproperintegrationthisshouldlikelybeturnedintoanativeparser,butthatshouldbearelativelyeasytask.</p> <p class='para'>DoingthisfortheInfernowikifswouldbeabitmorework,asnoMarkdownimplementationexistsinLimbotoday(althoughtherearesimilarthings).</p> <p class='para'>Thesetwotogethershouldmakeagoodsummer-sizedproject.Anyextratimecouldbespentconvertingtheexistingpages(or,evenbetter,writingaconversionprogram).</p> <p class='para'>Itisnotparticularlyimportantthatthelanguageunderstoodbywikifsbemarkdown,perse,butitwouldbeveryniceifitwasoneofthewidelyunderstoodsimilaralternatives(ratherthananewcreation).ItismoreimportantthatthelanguageunderstoodbythePlan9andInfernowikifsimplementaitonsbethesame(or,attheveryminimum,oneapropersubsetoftheother).</p> <a name="LINKS" /><h3>LINKS</h3> <p class='para'>Theoriginalwriteupon<a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/">Markdown</a>,includingtheinitialperlimplementation.</p> <p class='para'><a href="http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/">Discount</a>,aMarkdownimplementationwithPlan9support(viaAPE)inthemainlinetree.</p> <p class='para'><a href="https://bitbucket.org/mjl/textmangle">textmangle</a>,aLimboimplementationofamarkdown-likelibrary(withmoderatelydifferentsyntax).</p> <p class='para'><a href="http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown">Pandoc</a>and<a href="http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/">MultiMarkdown</a>aretwopossibleextensionsworthconsidering.Therearelotsofothers.</p> <p class='para'><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language)">Textile</a>and<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReStructuredText">reStructuredText</a>arealternativestoMarkdownwhichmightbesuitable,althoughneitherisinaswidespreaduse.</p><hr> </div> <!-- ***************************** --> <hr class='banner_sep' /> <div class='banner'><ul>	<li><a href="../plan_9_wiki/">Wiki</a></li>	<li><a href="../Documentation/">Docs</a></li>	<li><a href="../news/">News</a></li>	<li><a href="../development/">Devel</a></li>	<li><a href="../papers/">Papers</a></li>	<li><a href="../download/">Download</a></li> </ul></div> <hr class='footer_sep' /> <div class='footer'>	<a href="./">Current Page</a> - 	<span class='last_mod'>Last modified Fri Mar 29 15:52:28 EDT 2013</span>	<br />	<div class='about_wiki'><a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9"><img align="middle" src="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/img/power36.gif" alt="Powered by Plan 9" /></a>	<a href="../about.html">About this Wiki</a>	</div>  </div> </body></html>