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Subject:    [Mason] Textile filter for Mason components
From:       Giovanni Pensa <menozero () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-04-14 10:37:08
Message-ID: dad1c03205041403372f652b34 () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi.  I just wanted to say how easy is to use *Textile* in a Mason component.

"Textile":http://www.textism.com/tools/textile/ by "Dean
Allen":http://www.textism.com/about/ is "A Humane Web Text Generator",
that is a filter (originally in PHP) that transforms plain text with
simple markup in HTML.

Using the "Perl version":http://bradchoate.com/mt-plugins/textile/ by
Brad Choate is possible to write Mason components in Textile and let
Mason transform them in HTML.  This is especially useful for long
blocks of text.

Textile transforms blocks of text into <p>aragraphs, manages lists and
tables, and *bold* and _italic_ text.  (Automatic "curly quotation
marks" are disabled in the Perl version.)  Et cetera.

Just putting three lines at the end of the file seems to work:

    <%init> return if $m->cache_self; </%init>
    <%once> use Text::Textile qw(textile); </%once>
    <%filter> $_ = textile($_); </%filter>

Another option could be
"Markdown":http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ and
"SmartyPants":http://daringfireball.net/projects/smartypants/ by John
Gruber.  These are Perl scripts, Movable Type and Blosxom plugins, all
in one file.  I haven't tried them.


Thanks for Mason,

g.


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