[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Peter Jackson]

For a known standard form of markup, I suggest looking at YAML, which is 
stable and has libraries implemented in a number of languages.

See HTTP://YAML.ORG

I think it is very important to make the barrier to authors as low as 
possible and YAML strikes me as meeting this requirement.

Pute.



On 09/09/2015 14:28, Sampsa Laine wrote:
> So any suggestions for markup?
>
> I've been playing around with this in my head and thought that maybe something like this could work..
>
> - Any line starting with three pipe symbols is a "command"
>    For example:
> 	|||ENTRY_START
> 	|||ENTRY_END
> 		We can use these to have multiple documents
> 		in one file
>
> 	|||TITLE|HILANT:: VAXcluster	Title of the entry
> 	|||DATE|1-JAN-2015		Date of document
> 	|||VERSION|1.01			Version of document
> 	|||AUTHOR|Sampsa Laine
> 	|||AUTHOR_MAIL11|HILANT::SAMPSA
> 	|||AUTHER_SMTP|sampsa at mac.com
>
> 	|||H|1|This is a heading	Heading level, 1, Name
> 	|||SECT_START			Start of text section
> 	|||SECT_END			End of section
> 		Analogous to<p>...</p>  in HTML
>
> 	|||HTTP_LINK|http://www..|Link description
> 		(like<a href="http://..">Decription</a>  in HTML)
>
> 	|||FAL_LINK|CHIMPY::[INFO]FOO.TXT|Link description
> 		Same as HTTP link but with a reference to an object
> 		on HECnet - not sure how to use this right now, maybe
> 		produce some kind of menu to interesting documents on
> 		HECnet
>
> 	|||CTERM|HILANT|Description
> 		Again, not sure exactly how to use this but could be used
> 		to generate a menu like LAUNCH on CHIMPY
>
>
>
>
> On 8 Sep 2015, at 16:59, Sampsa Laine<sampsa at mac.com>  wrote:
>
>> Another side benefit of the Wiki of course is that we can put a bunch of other "HOWTO"-type material, history of the network, people can have their own entries (i.e. who is this HILANT::SAMPSA guy)..
>>
>> My hosting provider provides it for free with a one click install and does automatic updates whenever a new version is released etc..
>>
>> Of course if someone else wants to host it they're welcome to do so, just saying that I have this facility.
>>
>> PS: MediaWiki needs a  logo and I'm having a graphic designer buddy work of an ASCII logo of the word HECnet in about a 70x15 character size to be displayed on text terminals - if everybody agrees, we can turn that into a PNG etc and use it for various things such as the Wiki.
>>
>> Sampsa
>>
>>
>