Re: Proposal: new border setting in psql

On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, Andrew Dunstan wrote:

> I think we should probably confine ourselves to output formats that are in 
> very wide use or we'll be supporting a vast multitude. CSV and XML both 
> qualify here - not sure that ReST does.

ReST is accepted by Trac, one of the more popular SCM+Project Management 
tools available.  And the Python Docutils package is pretty popular too, 
with a growing infrastructure of packages springing up around it.  For 
example, it's trivial to take the ReST document, feed it through Sphinx 
(the tool used to generate the Python documentation nowadays: 
http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ ) , and turn the result into HTML, LaTeX, or PDF 
files.

IMHO, while there are a ton of them out there ( 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language ), there are only 
two text markup languages besides HTML and XML-based ones that really 
matter nowadays:  ReST and the Mediawiki format.

I just checked D'Arcy's original table and it imports perfect into the 
Trac system I use every day as valid rst code.  Myself and at least 
another half dozen people I work with would love to see that supported as 
an output format--if the change isn't too obtrusive to the code base, of 
course, which it doesn't sound like it is.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD