[***SPAM***] Textile

[***SPAM***] Textile

[Bill Meahan]

To save possibly reinventing the wheel, has anyone written a filter for 
processing Textile markup analogous to the filters for Markdown and 
reStructuredText?

I tried using Pandoc to provide multiple formats of output (ConTeXt, 
EPUB, MS Word) from a common source but Pandoc is excessively tied to 
Markdown which does not understand the difference between emphasized 
text and italic text and only outputs {\em word}, <em>word</em>, 
\emph{word} and so forth which means I have to go through every instance 
of the tag and change tags where I want explicit italics as I use other 
typographical techniques (small-caps or sans-serif or ...) for emphasis 
but some things (book titles, ship names, foreign words/phrases et. al) 
are always set in italics by convention. Pandoc continues its "map 
everything to <em> ways even if the input is textile or (X)HTML. There 
are some other neat advantages to Textile as well such as local styling 
(CSS or \begin{environment}... or \startenvironment ...)

I know a lot of computer languages now and I really don't want to learn 
Lua or Haskell -- I'm retired! :)

-- 
Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan

  
   “Writing is like getting married. One should never
    commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”

                                —Iris Murdoch

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Re: [***SPAM***] Textile

[Mica Semrick]

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Bill,

With more recent version of pandoc, you can write filters for it in python.
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/scripting.html


On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:09 AM, Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>wrote:

> To save possibly reinventing the wheel, has anyone written a filter for
> processing Textile markup analogous to the filters for Markdown and
> reStructuredText?
>
> I tried using Pandoc to provide multiple formats of output (ConTeXt, EPUB,
> MS Word) from a common source but Pandoc is excessively tied to Markdown
> which does not understand the difference between emphasized text and italic
> text and only outputs {\em word}, <em>word</em>, \emph{word} and so forth
> which means I have to go through every instance of the tag and change tags
> where I want explicit italics as I use other typographical techniques
> (small-caps or sans-serif or ...) for emphasis but some things (book
> titles, ship names, foreign words/phrases et. al) are always set in italics
> by convention. Pandoc continues its "map everything to <em> ways even if
> the input is textile or (X)HTML. There are some other neat advantages to
> Textile as well such as local styling (CSS or \begin{environment}... or
> \startenvironment ...)
>
> I know a lot of computer languages now and I really don't want to learn
> Lua or Haskell -- I'm retired! :)
>
> --
> Bill Meahan, Westland, Michigan
>
>    “Writing is like getting married. One should never
>    commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.”
>
>                                —Iris Murdoch
>
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