Text-to-HTML processing program

[phil hunt]

On 02 Jan 2004 22:18:56 -0800, Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote:
>philh at invalid.email.address (phil hunt) writes:
>> Does anyone know of a text-to-HTML processing program, ideally
>> written in Python because I'll probably be wanting to make small
>> modifications to it, which is simple and straightforward to use
>> and which uses a simple markup language (something like Wikipedia
>> markup would be ideal)?
>
>I really wish Wikipedia, BBCodes, and all that would just use regular
>HTML instead of continually inventing new "simplified" markup codes
>for users to remember.  The one thing they do that's useful is convert
>blank lines to <p>.

Wikipedia markup is significantly easier to use than HTML. Compare:

This is a ''list'':
* A list
* [http://www.cabalamat.org/ my website]
* [http://slashdot.org/ Slashdot]

With:

<p>This is a <i>list</i>: 
<ul>
<li><a href='http://www.cabalamat.org/'>my website</a></li>
<li><a href='http://slashdot.org/'>Slashdot</a></li>
</ul>

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