Re: [mylyn-docs-dev] Markup bridge from Wikitext to EMF: should we pull

[David Green <david.green@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex,

By pulling the plug-in into Mylyn Docs do you mean into Mylyn WikiText or something else?

We would welcome any contributions that make it easier to augment the Mylyn WikiText generation capabilities.  Providing a way to generate EMF models and an easy way to use those with generators sounds great.  

With a contribution of this size introducing new technologies such as EMF, we'll have to consider things like general applicability, user features versus extensibility and API, documentation, testing and maintenance.  I'd love to see a more concrete description and proposal so that we can explore further.

David

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Alex Lagarde <alex.lagarde@xxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi guys,

for Mylyn Intent we had to develop a bridge allowing to represent Wikitext-parsable content as EMF models (more details here http://t.co/pCAi3aGYVO).

This is a work in progress, an it has not been heavily used so it probably still  contains bugs, but I think it would make cense to pull this plugin (and maybe markup.gen, which contains HTML & LaTeX generators based on these EMF models) in mylyn.docs.

Then we could work together on the Metamodel and on the parser so that it can fulfil all the community needs (e.g. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=409694#c5).

The main benefit that I see is that we could easilly write generators allowing to go from Wikitext to any langage. For instance I love the LaTeX rendering, but always have a hard time writing LaTeX documents. If I could write my doc in textile and get a nice LaTeX-based PDF export I'll be glad :)

Best regards,
Alex


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