[development] Introducing a WikiFormat

[Nilesh Govindarajan]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Earnie Boyd
<earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Earnie Boyd
>> <earnie at users.sourceforge.net>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Daniel F. Kudwien wrote:
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm working on a WikiFormat module for Drupal 6+ This module
>>>>> will enable users to input content in Wiki-Like markup language.
>>>>> I'm following the WikICreole syntax.
>>>>> I don't think there's a complete solution for this problem
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Did you make sure that you really do not duplicate efforts?  There seems
>>>> to
>>>> be a lot of existing work already:
>>>> http://drupal.org/project/modules?text=wiki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> That was my thought.  See www.mingw.org for an example of a Drupal wiki
>>> already in use.  Rather than recreate check to see if you can help
>>> improve
>>> what exists.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Earnie
>>> -- http://progw.com
>>> -- http://www.for-my-kids.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> How do you know that mingw.org are using a Wiki Input format ?
>>
>
> Because I installed it.
>
>> I've tried all existing Wiki modules on drupal.org, but none of them
>> provided a complete solution. WikiTools and Diff were the best. I'm
>> still using it. PearWiki sucks. It supports minimal syntax.
>> Flexifilter didn't work. Customfilter works, but is almost same as
>> creating a module, but it didn't work properly with tables.
>>
>
> That isn't a reason to create a new module.  It is a reason to work with the
> ones that exist to improve them.
>
> --
> Earnie
> -- http://progw.com
> -- http://www.for-my-kids.com
>
>


Can you please elaborate what you installed ? PearWiki ?

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Nilesh Govindarajan
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