[support] Non-HTML input formats?

Fri Aug 17 22:09:02 UTC 2007

Here's another type of markup possible: the bbcode you know from countless forums:

http://drupal.org/project/bbcode

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Roy Smith 
  To: support at drupal.org 
  Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 11:22 PM
  Subject: Re: [support] Non-HTML input formats?

  MediaWiki is the software behind Wikipedia.  The markup language it uses is even easier than HTML.  Instead of

  <h2>title</h2>

  you type

  ==title==

  Likewise, you do things like ''italics'', '''bold''', and so on.  Nothing earth-shattering, but it's easier to type than all that angle-bracket stuff.

  When you say, "the wysiwyg editors", are you talking about wysiwyg editors in general, or are there some which are specifically meant to work with drupal?

  On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:09 PM, sander-martijn wrote:

    I am not familiar with MediaWiki so can you give an example of what you think would be a more user-friendly markup language than html?  I think html is pretty friendly, especially with drupal giving you the ability to limit which html the user can edit.  html is also the most widely known and accepted markup and familiarity is the greatest path to usability. 

    plus there are the wysiwyg editors - at least 5 - maybe one of them supports what you are looking for.

    Roy Smith wrote: 
      Is there any way to enter text with markup other than HTML?  Most wikis have a much more user-friendly markup language (MediaWiki being one common example).  Are there Drupal modules that let you enter text like that?

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