On 6/02/2015 5:21 AM, "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 05/02/2015 16:43, Stephan Aßmus wrote: > >> There is quite some work ahead, though, including a new exchange > >> format that replaces STXT. In any case, this would be a much > >> appreciated move, as BTextView pretty much sucks. > > > > At the moment, it could probably replace the BTextView API without > > loosing any features which would be hard to add back. The exchange > > format could be XML or JSON based, but needs to be written/implemented. > > If you want to use JSON for exchange, you might want to look at pandoc's > pivot format which uses JSON: > > http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/scripting.html#json-filters > > Although I didn't really use it yet, so I can't comment much. I've had a working pandoc on Haiku. Am still working on completing the GHC packaging - weird crashes make it difficult to do with haikuporter.