Jim's E-mail Mark-up Hints

Jim's E-mail Mark-up Hints

Posted Apr 10, 2007 20:24 UTC (Tue) by k8to (subscriber, #15413)
In reply to: Jim's E-mail Mark-up Hints by AnswerGuy
Parent article: Writing and publishing with Emacs Muse (Linux.com)

c2.com, the original wiki, has been around for a long time in computer terms, since 1995. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory

Of course, the idea of working with simplistic human-natural markup is probably much older, and relatively obvious, so I don't mean to ascribe the invention particularly to wikis, or this original wiki.

All I really meant to convey is that generating output from relatively simple structured input is not hard. Anyone with a bit of time can do it, and it's also possible to convert an existing system to handle slightly different input. That you can make your own is quite valuable, I think, and falls out of the simplicity of approach, which is one of the defining aspects of a lot of very tasteful designs. That is, you can achieve whatever you need without baroque difficult-to-read formats. Muse may be the bee's knees, but if you don't use emacs don't let it stop you.

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