[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Mark Wickens]

Yes, YAML is good too!

On 09/09/15 16:12, Peter Jackson wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>