Subject: Re: Setext (was: PROPOSAL: The Voice of Experience)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.misc,news.admin.misc,comp.infosystems.www,alt.etext,alt.config,alt.hypertext
Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc.
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emv@garnet.msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) writes:
> Alan Coopersmith (alanc@OCF.Berkeley.EDU) wrote:
> 
> : There is at least one setext->HTML filter already floating around the net.
> 
> There is a setext to HTML filter that's distributed with the "plexus"

About Setext
============

  The setext->HTML filter_ lives at:

	http://www.bsdi.com/server/util/setext.pl

  More information about setext_ is available at:

	http://www.bsdi.com/setext/

  The filter isn't perfect but it works fairly well.
  It's written in perl of course.

Why setext?
-----------

  I agree that FAQ's would best be written in something like setext.
  Why?  Because this document is written in setext and it includes
  the ability to embed HTML hypertext links without being obnoxious.

  As you can see it's easy to write setext documents, and as Edward
  pointed out, it uses existing text conventions for **bold** and _italic_
  words and titles.

Why not setext?
---------------

  There are parts of setext that aren't yet spelled out very well.
  These issues would have to be solved before you could use it for
  more complex documents.

  --sanders_

.. _setext http://www.bsdi.com/setext/
.. _filter http://www.bsdi.com/server/util/setext.pl
.. _sanders http://www.bsdi.com/hyplan/sanders.html