On Sep 26, 2007, at 11:32 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
I have a strong opinion about ST, I think it has major usability
i thought that you would have a strong opinion... nevertheless
problems. Minor changes at the bottom of a markup document should not mess up the formatting of a section above it.
i have never encountered such a thing in my day-to-day use of ST. could you please give an example?
I've encountered it many times. I try to avoid formatting as much as possible when writing ST because it can be really erratic and difficult to debug. With mediawiki/dokuwiki/pmwiki, I have no such problems, I use formatting all the time, even more advanced things like tables and multi-level lists, and now Infoboxes with pdpedia.
http://puredata.org/docs/developer/HelpTemplate
Here's an example, why is "Standard Receive Symbols" grey and small? It has a new line before it, and is indented one space, just like the "Files" header.
Also, if you look at the "doc/pddp/templates/template..." lines, they do not look intended, because they are wrapped. But if you check, they are on the same line as the one above, which only has 2 spaces on it.
.hc
Plus it's syntax is quite a bit different than other wikis, especially the widely used ones, so that means people have to learn it specifically.
ST is not a wiki dialect per se.
My guess is that ST would be fine if 1) you are a python programmer and 2) you use a specialized editor for it. The way we use it, it is a hinderance.
i am neither a python programmer nor do i use a specialized editor for it (i use html-forms; no wysiwyg javascript sh!t)
mfga.dsr IOhannes
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