Wiki

Looking back at this blog, I have found that some articles are getting uncomfortably long. Long articles present two problems on this blog:
1. It is not easy to read technical articles in the font of my choosing.
2. It is not easy to write (bbcode, which is used on this blog, isn't exactly the most writer-friendly markups).

I don't want to change the font. When I started this blog, I didn't plan that all of its contents will be technical (and it still isn't - it's just that I haven't got the time or inclination to write non-technical posts yet) - thus the choice of casual fonts.

Instead, I have started another sub-site to house longer articles. This blog will just serve as announcements and links to them.

I have two software under consideration (ah, the spoils of open source!): yawk (a wiki software) and grutatxt (a markup processor). While a wiki obviously isn't the same as a markup processor, for my intent and purposes they are identical since the wiki will be read-only.

Grutatxt has the benefit that its source markup is more readable than yawk (or other wiki's for that matter), but yawk definitely has more features (automatic navigation, etc) that I wouldn't want to handle manually. Both are relatively easy to write with, but their markups are largely incompatible. Grutatxt uses perl which is available in most places, yawk uses - well, awk, but it has to be a specific version of awk (GNU Awk 3.1.5+). Grutatxt has a companion software called Gruta that provides full-fledged Content Management System (CMS) (which meets of exceeds what yawk can do) but that will be for consideration at a later date.

For now, I'm using yawk (because that's what I started with before I found grutatxt), but I actually have both systems online and will decide which one I will use later.

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Posted on 21 Jul 2013, 5:35 - Categories: General
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