[HECnet] HECnet .HLP library for OpenVMS

[Sampsa Laine]

I think as we're effectively just marking text with headings and such, we invent a very lightweight markup such as I suggested earlier.

I'll convert one of my HLP files into that format by hand and you guys can have a look, sound like an idea?

Then I'll write a bunch of converters to output Wiki markup, JSOM, YAML - whatever...

Sampsa


On 9 Sep 2015, at 18:50, Mark Pizzolato - Info Comm <Mark at infocomm.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday, September 9, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Sampsa Laine wrote:
>> I can write one in Python in about an hour..
>> 
>> sampsa
>> 
>> On 9 Sep 2015, at 16:39, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
>> <system at TMESIS.COM> wrote:
>> 
>>> Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> The original idea is that it's basically the same format as a VMS
>>>> help = file but we'll use some markup to make it more generic, then
>>>> export VMS = HELP files, Wiki markup etc.
>>>> 
>>>> YAML will work fine for this.
>>>> 
>>>> If we keep over-engineerin this thing I doubt anything will ever be =
>>>> built..
>>>> 
>>>> I vote we use YAML and agree on the tags we use to structure the text.
>>> 
>>> There's a YAML to VMS .HLP converter?
> 
> VMS Help content is/was written for display in fixed width font with tabs and spacing for alignment of indentation and columns.
> 
> Agreeing on tags means picking a markup style to structure the text.   Are you suggesting to invent another light weight markup language, or would it make more sense to use an existing one?
> 
> - Mark
> 
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