From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 1 13:29:44 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B5F116A4CE for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:29:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (joel.tallye.com [216.99.199.78]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A66743D2F for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 13:29:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lorenl@alzatex.com) Received: from hosea.tallye.com (hosea.tallye.com [127.0.0.1]) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j01DTfYs018094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 05:29:42 -0800 Received: (from sttng359@localhost) by hosea.tallye.com (8.12.8/8.12.10/Submit) id j01DTfRJ018089 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 1 Jan 2005 05:29:41 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: hosea.tallye.com: sttng359 set sender to lorenl@alzatex.com using -f Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2005 05:29:41 -0800 From: "Loren M. Lang" To: FreeBSD Mailing list Message-ID: <20050101132941.GA14949@alzatex.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-GPG-Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc X-GPG-Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C Subject: Good General Purpose Text Markup Language X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 13:29:44 -0000 I'm looking for a good way to be able to markup text strings stored in a database for displaying text in bold or other highlights and links to other docs. I'm thinking some kind of sgml or xml markup language would be best. I want a generic way to add it so it can be converted to many other forms besides html. I'll need paragraphs, bold, italics, superscripts for TM, and hyperlinks, but probably not much more. I've thought about using a minimal subset of xhtml so it can easily be converted to other forms, but I've heard of linuxdoc and whatever freebsd uses might be better. Any recommendations? -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: B3B9 D669 69C9 09EC 1BCD 835A FAF3 7A46 E4A3 280C