<html><head><title>Replace language for wikifs (Editing Fri Mar 29 15:52:28 EDT 2013 version)</title><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><!-- FFFFE9 is acme yellow; FFFFE9 is as close as you can get to it before charon decides to use  grey instead of map entry 254 --><body bgcolor="#FFFFE9" link="#0000AA" alink="#0000AA" vlink="#0000AA"><center><font size=+2><b>Replace language for wikifs</b></font> (Editing Fri Mar 29 15:52:28 EDT 2013 version)</center><p> For information on editing, see thedescription of <a href="../0">Plan 9 wiki syntax</a>.<p><form action="/magic/wikipost" method="post"><table><tr><td valign=top><input type="submit" name="x" value="Put"></td><td><table><tr><td align=right>(optional) Comment:</td><td><input type="text" name="comment" value="" cols=40></td></tr><tr><td align=right>(optional) Email:</td><td><input type="text" name="author" value="" cols=40></td></tr></table><input type="hidden" name="title" value="Replace language for wikifs"><input type="hidden" name="version" value="1364586748"><input type="hidden" name="service" value="plan9"><input type="hidden" name="base" value="/wiki/plan9"><p><textarea name="text" wrap="virtual" cols="80" rows="25">The wikifs(4) in both Plan 9 and Inferno understand a very small setof cues when generating HTML. That set can be limiting. It should bereplaced with something better, like Markdown. Markdown engines in C already exist, and have been ported to Plan 9via APE. For proper integration this should likely be turned into anative parser, but that should be a relatively easy task. Doing this for the Inferno wikifs would be a bit more work, as noMarkdown implementation exists in Limbo today (although there aresimilar things). These two together should make a good summer-sized project. Any extratime could be spent converting the existing pages (or, even better,writing a conversion program). It is not particularly important that the language understood bywikifs be markdown, per se, but it would be very nice if it was oneof the widely understood similar alternatives (rather than a newcreation). It is more important that the language understood by thePlan 9 and Inferno wikifs implementaitons be the same (or, at thevery minimum, one a proper subset of the other). LINKS The original writeup on [Markdown |http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/], including the initialperl implementation. [Discount | http://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/markdown/], aMarkdown implementation with Plan 9 support (via APE) in the mainlinetree. [textmangle | https://bitbucket.org/mjl/textmangle], a Limboimplementation of a markdown-like library (with moderately differentsyntax). [Pandoc |http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown] and[MultiMarkdown | http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/] are twopossible 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 toMarkdown which might be suitable, although neither is in aswidespread use. </textarea><p></td></table></form> <hr><table width=100%><tr><td valign=center align=left></td><td valign=center align=right><a href="../about.html">About the server</a>| <a href="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9"><img src="http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/img/power36.gif"alt="Powered by Plan 9"></a></td></tr></table></html></body>