how to beat minimal wiki features out of redcloth?

[Phlip]

Rubies:

I always see "redcloth" everywhere - a textile implementation for Ruby. So I try
to use it.

Firstly, my code has some <li> tags and whatnot. This command line passed them
through without decorating them:

ruby -e "require 'rubygems'; require 'redcloth'; puts
RedCloth.new(File.read('README')).to_html " > doc.html

Yes, it's RedCloth 4.1.9.

I sort of expected &lt;li&gt; instead of <li>. (I am aware that many wiki
markups cheat and let the user author HTML directly...)

Next, some wikis use ==header== notation. redcloth took out the == marks, and
gave me just <p>header</p>

Next, I have an indented code sample. Ward's Wiki (and my old wikis) could
automatically put a <pre> tag around code samples. Nope.

Next, I thought markuppers should generally strew put class='thang' attributes
around, so a CSS can color them all up. Nope.

Please don't tell me to Google for this - I will only get blog after blog
gushing about how awesome redcloth is. I'd rather hear either how to get these
minimal features out of redcloth - without DIY <pre> tags and such that would
totally defeat the purpose - or hear a suggestion for a better wiki markup library!

 

[Phlip]

Please don't tell me to Google for this - I will only get blog after

blog gushing about how awesome redcloth is. I'd rather hear either how
to get these minimal features out of redcloth - without DIY <pre> tags
and such that would totally defeat the purpose - or hear a suggestion
for a better wiki markup library!

You mean like rdoc? (-:

 

[Ben Bleything]

Firstly, my code has some <li> tags and whatnot. This command line passed
them through without decorating them:

ruby -e "require 'rubygems'; require 'redcloth'; puts
RedCloth.new(File.read('README')).to_html " > doc.html

That's expected.

I sort of expected &lt;li&gt; instead of <li>. (I am aware that many wiki
markups cheat and let the user author HTML directly...)

You shouldn't expect that out of Textile. I think you may have a
misapprehension of what Textile is meant to do. It's meant to make it
easy to write a document that reads well in raw text but also can
"compile" to nice HTML that has the same semantic meaning (more or
less) than the plain text input.

So, don't expect it to behave like a wiki markup language. It's not,
and that's not the point of it.

Next, some wikis use ==header== notation. redcloth took out the == marks,
and gave me just <p>header</p>

It is strange that it took out the ==, but they're not Textile markup
and wouldn't do anything. If you want a second-level header, use "h2.
Header"

Next, I have an indented code sample. Ward's Wiki (and my old wikis) could
automatically put a <pre> tag around code samples. Nope.

Next, I thought markuppers should generally strew put class='thang'
attributes around, so a CSS can color them all up. Nope.

Again, not features of Textile.

Please don't tell me to Google for this - I will only get blog after blog
gushing about how awesome redcloth is. I'd rather hear either how to get
these minimal features out of redcloth - without DIY <pre> tags and such
that would totally defeat the purpose - or hear a suggestion for a better
wiki markup library!

Instead, allow me to google it for you and provide links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_(markup_language) -- this should
give you the background on Textile and includes links to references
and implementations, so you can get a better idea of what it is (and
is not) for.

http://hobix.com/textile/ -- _why's reference. He was originally
responsible for redcloth.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ -- an alternative to
Textile that may behave somewhat closer to what you expect. BlueCloth
handles this one, as do a few other libraries I'm not familiar with

There are also some wiki-specific markup languages implemented in
Ruby, but I've never used any of them. A search for ruby wiki should
come up with something, though you may have to dig through wiki app
code to figure out what they're using.

Ben

 

[Joel VanderWerf]

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ -- an alternative to
Textile that may behave somewhat closer to what you expect. BlueCloth
handles this one, as do a few other libraries I'm not familiar with

maruku is one of those libs and it adds some features such as tables and
footnotes. Does have a few bugs, but what doesn't.

 

[Tom Cloyd]

maruku is one of those libs and it adds some features such as tables
and footnotes. Does have a few bugs, but what doesn't.

Those aren't additions. Redcloth certainly has tables and footnotes. I
use them all the time.

Kevin, you need to study up on Textile just a bit. It isn't tough.

t.

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[Eric Hodel]

You mean like rdoc? (-:

http://blog.segment7.net/articles/2008/02/14/an-rdoc-wiki

http://segment7.net/projects/ruby/snippets/rdoc_wiki.rb (only 200
lines!)