[haiku] Re: BePDF documentation

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:49:05 +0100 CET

"Alan Burkes" <firstakir@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> But I might as well supply an idea for question c), too. We could 
> just
> make our StyledEdit support ReST (read: ReStructured Text), add
> hyperlinks to it, and write our documentation. ReST is simple because
> it uses markups like HTML does, so you don't need any special editor
> to create documents, but it's more simple then HTML because it 
> doesn't
> have any fancy style elements. Furthermore, it's human-readable, so
> you don't even need to make a parser (although, if we go that way,
> there are several open-source parsers available).
> 
> For more information on ReST, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReST

StyledEdit already support RTF (as far as possible with our limited 
text engine), and adding ReST support would be quite easy to do -- just 
in case you're interested ;-)

Bye,
   Axel.


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