(could be slightly OT) Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken manual in Texinfo format

[Sunnan]

Joerg F. Wittenberger wrote:
> c) Therefore I'd always recomment to *store* some strictly checked
> format, while serializing to the fashion-of-the-day, human readably
> syntax in the very moment of delivery for edit/display.
>   
I agree. The hard part there is the conversion from edit-mode to strict. 
I run a medium-size counter-culture wiki (+ 10000 nodes) that grew out 
of a UseMod-fork and I want to change the syntax drastically (perhaps 
offering a choice between some future homegrown superset of Textile, and 
a souped-up Xinha). I need to (this is on my someday-maybe-list) figure 
out a way to *strictly* parse it. Not easy considering the amount of 
abuses of syntax people have put in over the years. (Using our h2-syntax 
to center images is one of the worst examples, but there are others, 
less extreme.)

I do agree, though.

Sunnan