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Ted
6-Jun-2013
[2140]
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html
Arnold
6-Jun-2013
[2141]
I found MarkDown a good thought, like mdp, and ther obviously has 
been put some clever thinkwork into it, but six hashes for a h6 tag? 
And the alternative underline with "====" and or "----" does not 
convince me what happens if you do not match the length of the header? 
It compensates? so why not 3 or four like in mdp?
Pekr
6-Jun-2013
[2142]
if others might maky their stuff and claim it beind de-facto standard, 
we can as well ... not sure if markdown is more popular than what 
github is using for their .md, but we should either adhere, or make 
converters and go our own way, or even better - introduce some clever 
layer, which will allow to recognise their format and render it properly, 
while allowing .mdp to be more powerful
Arnold
6-Jun-2013
[2143]
what I said, in other words ;)
Maxim
6-Jun-2013
[2144]
my two cents.  

funny that all of these formats basically can be converted from one 
to the other in a few lines of parse.  


these text-based formats  may be super cool in non rebol scene, but 
I find this whole discussion about which equivalent to use... well 
... a bit anemic.


why not just use our own format internally and import from other 
formats at will... I mean really, its very easy to do.


I've been working with an extensible wiki format in QM and have been 
adding new things to it.  I don't see why we want to limit ourself 
to headers and titles and still wonder which one of the incapable 
formats to use.   are we using Rebol or are we trying to be as limited 
as all the others?  I mean, when I look at QM's wiki format I can 
add new specs in about 5 minutes, including supporting code which 
spits out html.  


 I think this kind of coding is something which must be leveraged 
 in any Open rebol project. let's allow people to import docs in whatever 
 format and manage them using something that makes sense for us?  
 including more expansive tags which are tailored for different sections 
 like a dictionnary, tutorials, traditional docs, guides, etc.
Arnold
6-Jun-2013
[2145]
now you're talking maxim! Presentation stuff ;)
Maxim
6-Jun-2013
[2146]
I've been rather dormant in many rebol spheres in the last months 
because I've been working a lot and most of it is commercial and 
private work, but I feel like its time for Rebolers to break out 
of their inferiority complex and show others that Rebol is better, 
more cutting edge than ever.  

And it still stays simple, overall, even in large projects.


I think the community has lost a bit of its resolve, and I am trying 
to make a point with the devcon.  Rebol has never gone away and its 
back on track.  


I think its up to everyone involved in public projects to promote 
this by actually playing on Its strengths.   I resisted the urge 
to build the site using public tools, and I think, Chris and I and 
building a super default framework just by catering to the needs 
of the devcon's web site.   Chris just added a news module to it 
(in one day).  we will show the site's internals at the devcon, showing 
how easy it really was to build up, using a centralized Git Repo 
to share the code and with the server, when ready for production.


Its ALL coded with REBOL.  at the devcon, we will look at packaging 
QM with cheyenne, Remark and making sure it all works with my web 
service API... with this l think the rebol community will have a 
pretty nice framework to rival RR and others.
Gregg
6-Jun-2013
[2147x2]
Thanks for posting that link Ted!


I, too, want an all-REBOL toolchain and format. However, I view MD/MDP 
as a very basic format for plain communication and HTML generation. 
It is not a "structured" document format.  And while extensible is 
good, we can probably come up with a spec that outlines all that 
might need to be handled, to help guide a baseline design. e.g., 
while it's XML, DocBook was well thought out IIRC.


I admit that one of my problems with makedoc, historically, is consistent 
behavior and support for images and links. 

Don't forget Gab's QML either.
I haven't used AsciiDoc, but it looks like it might be a nice standard 
to use, at a glance. I haven't looked at enough AsciiDoc source to 
say if I like the format though. It didn't grab me the first time 
I looked at it, but I'll look again. The header syntax puts me off 
a bit. http://powerman.name/doc/asciidocis a cheat sheet.
Andreas
6-Jun-2013
[2149x2]
Pekr, Markdown _is_ what Github is using for .md files.
Arnold, if you underline headers with === oder --- in headers that's 
sufficient. No need to match the header. I don't like the hash syntax 
either, but when I hear talk about h6: "remember that Feynman covered 
all of physics [..] with only two levels of document hierarchy".
GrahamC
6-Jun-2013
[2151x3]
@Gregg, asciidoc uses a header *because* it's a document formatting 
tool.  There's a variety of styles supported .. and it's a pain to 
try and remember but I guess it gets easier with use.  The point 
for me is that it provides entry to docbook and then multiple other 
formats whereas makedoc/pro are stuck in a single page style html 
which is really past it for any serious documentation.
Sure you can roll your own, but if we want other people to learn 
it, you're running up hill all the time.
Pekr, I have several markdown docs now in the document repository, 
and they display quite nicely on github
MikeL
7-Jun-2013
[2154]
For people in Windows Word World (I know I know ... double pane), 
MarkdownPad 2 was released on 05-Mar-2013 with standard and Pro version.

The pro version includes GFM support.  Pro costs $14.95 USD for a 
single user licence.
http://markdownpad.com/compare.html

This is the kind of stuff that I use because time isn't free and 
Git seems to be the place to converge to.
[If already posted (or hate windows), ignore immediately.]
GrahamC
7-Jun-2013
[2155x2]
Hmm.  I was asked to setup a brand new laptop with windows 8 today. 
 Cousin needs Office 360  so I click on the install which takes me 
to website.  I enroll him into windows live and start the installation. 
 Which then fails 5x .. brand new latop.  system restore and uninstall. 
 WTF!
I felt my BP rising steadily as I tried to negotiate Windows 8 using 
a mouse :(
Henrik
7-Jun-2013
[2157]
being a vegetarian doesn't help, when using Win8, I see.
Geomol
7-Jun-2013
[2158]
Maybe ASIMOVs Foundation is happening?
Maxim
7-Jun-2013
[2159]
at least you didn`t have to try using it with a touch pad.  *That* 
is frightening.  :-)
Arnold
7-Jun-2013
[2160]
Youtube channel: (RedREBOL was already taken anyone?) alternative 
could be theRedREBOL or theRedCoder or theREBOLCoder.
GrahamC
7-Jun-2013
[2161]
RedBol ?
Arnold
8-Jun-2013
[2162]
Reducation Channel?
GrahamC
8-Jun-2013
[2163]
Gulag ?
Arnold
10-Jun-2013
[2164]
@Arie, wrong group Announce. Bas already pointed this out. (Softwarefreedomday 
is his channel). I do not want to steal viewers from Bas' channel.

The point is I want to use this new channel as a dedicated channel 
for Red (and REBOL) specific video's. I imagine this being used by 
this community to post self-made tutorial video's on. The softwarefreedom 
channel is much broader than this. One does not exclude the other.
Gerard
11-Jun-2013
[2165x2]
Why not use separate channels for Red, Red/System and Rebol respectively 
or conversely using a family name like "Rebol-like languages" or 
"Rebolish" or something similar ? Personally I prefer using separate 
names, even splitting furthermore amongst Rebol2 and Rebol3 ... but 
this is a suggestion only. In the end I also see some specific place 
for Boron, World, and Topaz but then everyone should point to the 
others or to a single "entry point portail" which points and summarizes 
the évolution and differences while it could alos only point to each 
of the specific related websites, as they appear  !!!
May be "Rebol inspired languages"  would be enough ...
Gregg
11-Jun-2013
[2167]
We do have #notREBOL for general chat on REBOL alternatives.
Gerard
12-Jun-2013
[2168]
@Gregg : I was thinking the group was in search for a new name on 
Youtube, not here, isn't it ?
Kaj
12-Jun-2013
[2169]
Bas' existing playlist is a Red playlist. It's just one of the SoftwareFreedomDay 
account playlists
Endo
12-Jun-2013
[2170]
Robert it is a GREAT news! Thank you!
Gregg
12-Jun-2013
[2171x3]
Gerard, maybe I'm confused. I just meant the group here.
Robert, that sounds great. Congratulations to you and the team.
Guess I'll have to consider an Android device at some point now. 
:-)
DocKimbel
12-Jun-2013
[2174]
Robert: "The cool thing with this approach is one really don't need 
anything more than the Android encapper to produce the apk file. 
No need for android NDK, SDK or even JAVA to be installed ;-)"


Do I understand you reimplemented jarsigner, zipalign and the java 
XML binary compiler in Rebol?
Bo
12-Jun-2013
[2175]
The R3Demo1 apk works great on my Motorola running Android 4.1.  
The only minor complaint is that the text doesn't all fit inside 
the window (the "n" in "been").
Cyphre
12-Jun-2013
[2176]
Doc: basically yes. Currently only the zipalign is used in the encapppign 
process since it is small cli based exe but we might get rid of it 
eventually as well if there is any license collision (but I guess 
not)
james_nak
12-Jun-2013
[2177]
Very Cool Robert!
NickA
12-Jun-2013
[2178]
Fantastic!  This gives R3 some basis for commercial use.
Cyphre
13-Jun-2013
[2179]
@Bo: yes, the text related issues are not yet solved in the current 
R3/R3GUI versions(which also the ecapper uses). But are next on my 
"Android todo list" so you can expect them to be fixed in upcoming 
release.
GrahamC
15-Jun-2013
[2180]
Good to see you got the redis:// working!
Rebolek
15-Jun-2013
[2181]
I hope so :) Now I'm going to use it in one web, so I can test it 
in real life.
Endo
17-Jun-2013
[2182]
Cool work Rebolek!
Rebolek
17-Jun-2013
[2183]
Thanks, Endo!
Maarten
17-Jun-2013
[2184x2]
Awesome. And then some.
Can't wait to free some time and start working with this.
Rebolek
17-Jun-2013
[2186]
Thanks, Maarten!I hope it will be usable :)
Maxim
17-Jun-2013
[2187]
nice work Rebolek.
Cyphre
19-Jun-2013
[2188x2]
R3GUI + async http...Nice demo Andreas!
If you don't mind I've added some more 'bells' to your script. Try 
this version: http://rebol.atwebpages.com/tests/r3gui-httpget.r3

To se that the asyncs works nicely, just hit the "download" button 
few more times ;)