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Posted by Andy Dingley on 12/05/05 22:48
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:06:26 -0800, "Curtis" <nospam@nohow.not> wrote:
>If we could have found something that did what we wanted the
>way we wanted to do it, we would not have bothered. Textile
>and Markdown came a bit closer than BBCode, but...
So what's wrong with HTML, DocBook or TEI ?
Now pardon a possibly rude suggestion here, but if you're having to ask
what "id" and "class" are all about, you're not the most expert
authority on text encoding and the chances are that you're missing
something that already exists.
There's also the question of synergy. Now this is a hugely abused term,
to the point of meaninglessness, but Bucky Fuller was right about it.
There's a _huge_ synergy to using pre-existing tools and formats rather
than inventing your own. Are you _really_ sure that inventing another
new format is sufficiently better, and the other pre-exisiting choices
so limited, that you're actually going to be better off doing it this
way?
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