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StructuredText / Wiki formatting is go

I've just met one of my long term goals for my weblog

I've enabled StructuredText by default on all new weblog posts! The markup can still use some additions - for instance you can't yet specify the type of ordered list but that's a small addition.

So... I suppose I'll give you a quick example of some of the stuff I can do now:

• lists
  • nested lists!
• ha!

1. ordered lists
   1. nested ordered lists
2. mwa ha!

• correctly nested
  1. different types of lists
• mwa ha ha

1. correctly nested
   • different types of lists
2. mwa ha ha (the other kind, just for completeness)

bold, italic, and underline, of course (and =monospaced=)
auto linking of urls: http://www.keithdevens.com/
almost any style I want!
and finally:

It can do blockquotes! Look at this long quote here. La la la la la la la. More quotes, fingers... getting... tired... must finish blockquote.

It also does (and will do) some cool stuff you can't see behind the scenes... it has and will have markup "directives", so I can do page breaks, titles (the title of this post is done with a title directive), "lead ins" (like showing the first paragraph of a long post, etc.) Yay.

To do:

• Really get inline styles right. There are problems when you try to nest bold, italic, underline, monospaced, etc.
• Get preformatted block text done
• Put page and lead-in directives in
• put image support in
• put the "super escape" in. {any text} will escape any styles.
• put the different types of ordered lists in
• finally, macros (maybe). I'll be able to type (?=any text) and have the text keyed to "any text" substituted back in. And maybe (?funccall(params)) will call a function and replace itself with the function's output.

I'll make the markup code publicly available when it's "finished"

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