[TxMt] Re: Bulletin Board like editing

[Jacob Rus]

Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at ...> writes:
> On 17. Jan 2007, at 18:04, Zeitler Andreas wrote:
> > But in the meanwhile i have some problems here:
> > 1. There are to main Forum Softwares out there which the people  
> > (and me) use most. The one is vBulletin and the other is phpBB.  

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> > How do i get rid of this problem? Or do i have to expand the  
> > Bulletin Board Language for this to work?
> 
> Do you use different file extensions for the two  
> cases? If so, it would be easiest to create two grammars, one for  
> each, that have different root scopes, so you can scope snippets and  
> commands differently.

They don't really have file extensions.  These are ad-hoc, poorly defined,
simplistic markup languages that vary extensively from one forum to another.  I
made the BBCode bundle to match the syntax of the forums I have used most. 
Unfortunately, just about every forum has at least slightly different syntax.

This is basically because BBCode sucks.  Alas.  I wish everyone would just use
markdown for these types of things.  Maybe people will learn from the example of
sites like reddit.

> That is, best to make them derived from the same root, and let them  
> include the same base grammar (for maximum reuse).

I think this is probably the best bet.  Because we should really scope as
invalid the parts that won't work on a particular version of the software, so
that users don't enter broken markup.

-Jacob