[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Sampsa Laine]

OK works for me..

We just have to agree on the tags we'll use.


On 9 Sep 2015, at 16:12, Peter Jackson <JACKSON_PN at POBOX.COM> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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