[thelist] Email Composition Question (now wth improved tip content!)

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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>martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com wrote:

>> It's a similar set of rules to StructuredText:
>> http://www.zope.org/Documentation/Articles/STX
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>> Let's see if it follows any more stx rules

>Looks like utter failure to me. So sad...

Oh well..

>I like the concept of STX, though. The trend toward simple, readable
>markup makes me happy; even though most of us render HTML in our heads,
>I'd like to see a more "masses-friendly" formatting tool take off.

I like it a lot, particularly for CMS driven sites. I spend a lot of time
training CMS users, and anything that reduces their fear and their
probability of screwing up is A Good Thing. Even for people like us who
*can* code HTML by hand accurately and quickly, it's still a saving on
typing, and more of the brain that can concentrate on what we're writing
rather than the code required to produce that.

FWIW, my recent Zope article:
http://evolt.org/article/thelist/20/23583/index.html
was entirely written with STX, and 'proper' HTML only came into it when it
got submitted to the site - I did a *wee* bit of code formatting (with
BBEdit) to make it more visually parsable to editors, but it's essentially
the same code.

Cheers
Martin


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