Re: websites made simple - with Lua

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Reordered questions/answers...

> 13.10.2004 kello 10:26, <P.Gertman@informgaz.gazprom.ru> kirjoitti:
>> 1. Lumikki seems to be an interesting project, but have you analysed
>> any other software with similar goals? There is an AFT (Almost Free
>> Text) which is like Lumikki but uses a more clean (IMHO) syntax (no
>> HTML tags at all). Zope project has "Structured Text" subsystem for
>> same purpose. And Wiki markup language... Not sure, but sometimes it
>> is better not to invent bycicle ;).

Yes, but they don't use Lua...

>> 2. Why "<@TAG params>"? Ok, it's like HTML but also tedious - "<" and
>> ">" are entered with shift... IMHO "[TAG params]" is better because no
>> shift needed and difference from HTML makes source more readable.
>> Well, there could be even better ways:
>> what about just "TAG{params}" (shift again, but so familiar... :))?

Don't forget international users. On French keyboard (AZERTY), all these 
keys are equally tedious to type: AltGr + key...
A good system is a flexible system, allowing arbitrary markup signs 
(start/end string).

I will take a new glance at Lumikki, now it matured ;-) And perhaps add 
some wanted features.

Asko Kauppi wrote:
> I did consider LaTex and some others. My personal itch really is, 
> creating PDF or RTF files on the Mac (for documentation) is a breeze but 
> neither of these formats are very well embraced by the multi-os 
> community (= Linux users, mainly :)

Maybe someday I will convert a PHP library for creating PDF documents 
(FPDF) to Lua, both for ease of use, and to improve my PHP skills.
I fear it is low in my priority, currently.

> So, in order to do HTML output, I created Lumikki.  I don't want to do 
> daily work on (too) many syntaxes, so having Lua + HTML was a relief for 
> me.  This is the same approach I've taken with Hamster (Lua + make).
>
> Now that I have used Lumikki (as a user) for some weeks, I really think 
> the HTML/Lua merger is a Good Choice.  There's many things you can fine 
> tune in HTML, and there Lumikki stands not on your way.  Let's say, you 
> can yourself decide where the borderline between the two goes.
>
> <@TAG ...> syntax is used because of syntax highlighting.

For your editor...

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