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08:55:34 <foucist> docl: sup
10:20:50 <crcx> very little is going on
11:00:41 <crcx> I pushed a few cleanups to the rx fossil repo, and am doing some work on alexandria
11:10:54 <foucist> crcx: hmm,  reStructuredText eh?  why not markdown or some other text formatting
11:12:54 <foucist> i don't really like formatting that does something like 
11:13:05 <foucist> blah
11:13:06 <foucist> ----
11:14:04 <foucist> i was looking at markups to find something that would be easy for me to type in my personal plaintext files
11:14:11 <foucist> and then publish that in a nice format online
11:14:35 <foucist> markdown comes close i think, some modification is needed though
11:14:59 <foucist> i use syntax hilighting in vim on my plaintext as well
11:27:42 <crcx> I've done more with reST than markdown
11:51:11 <docl> hey foucist, long time no see
11:51:43 * docl has been looking into ruby more lately
11:52:24 <docl> there's some really fun stuff there.
11:56:33 <docl> foucist: you still travelling?
12:01:18 <docl> There's YAML for markup, looks kind of interesting
12:10:37 <docl> or is markdown a subset of YAML?
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12:17:54 <foucist> nah you're thinking of json i guess
12:18:01 <foucist> or haml?
12:18:27 <foucist> haven't heard of yaml-based markup but i guess there would be one
12:26:55 <docl> hmm. json is a subset of yaml, but I think both are markup languages.
12:27:20 <docl> yaml is more data oriented though
12:27:34 <docl> like a database representation
12:28:40 <docl> http://yaml.kwiki.org/?YamlInFiveMinutes
12:30:12 <docl> --- is a document separator. makes more sense to me than using it for an underline.
12:31:37 <foucist> yeah
12:31:49 <foucist> but i don't really like using --- at all
12:31:55 <foucist> (even though i do)
12:32:03 <foucist> i want to solve that problem with syntax hilighting
12:32:18 <foucist> really good syntax hilighting + extremely light weight markup ftw
12:32:37 <foucist> good for readability via txt, html etc
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12:34:23 <docl> for a document separator?
12:34:44 <crcx> I'll take a look at markdown tonight
12:35:14 <foucist> crcx: is vim your editor of choice?
12:35:42 <crcx> most of the books will be easily convertable (looking at the syntax), though I'll need a way to handle the metadata fields
12:35:47 <crcx> foucist: I mosty use nano
12:36:09 <foucist> do you use any syntax hilighting on regular plaintext files?
12:37:02 <foucist> docl: well, sorta in general..  or if --- is used, it should always be that length and no longer probably.. 
12:37:34 <crcx> I highlight tabs and trailing spaces; I
12:37:43 <crcx> I've not written a highlighter for reST yet.
13:16:42 <docl> http://biodegradablegeek.com/2007/12/using-vim-as-a-complete-ruby-on-rails-ide/
13:17:14 * docl didn't realize there were so many plugins for vim
13:19:43 <foucist> docl: yeah i never use any of those though, except the syntax highlighting stuff heh
13:23:10 <crcx> with a few extensions, markdown looks like it'll work nicely
13:27:15 <foucist> crcx: yeah it needs some modifications for sure, there's a couple forks of it too, but still not satisfactory
13:29:01 <crcx> the big thing missing for my needs is syntax for adding metadata
13:33:49 <foucist> ah
13:34:04 * docl is considering writing some yaml parsing in retro
13:34:26 <foucist> crcx: store the metadata at the bottom too   or in a oneliner ;)
13:34:39 <foucist> too much metadata at the top is annoying to scroll through
13:35:33 <crcx> foucist: the metadata isn't intended to be visible outside of a cover page in the finished book
13:37:14 <foucist> yeah
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16:52:28 <crc> finally at home :)
16:54:11 <docl> welcome home :)
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20:23:24 <docl> http://gist.github.com/484007
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