[Vimoutliner] otl2html and ikiwiki

[Noel Henson]

On Saturday 19 August 2006 11:42, Joey Hess wrote:
> I discovered vimoutliner the other day, and I want to thank everyone who
> made it possible, it's much nicer than hnb, which I was using before,
> and for the first time I actually feel that using an outliner makes me
> more productive.

On behalf of all of us... Thanks!

>
> I wanted to let you know that the next version of ikiwiki[1] will
> include support for otl files as wiki pages. Since ikiwiki allows
> editing of wiki pages in vim, and committing them with subversion, this
> is a nice combination, in my opinion.

Cool. Let us know when it's ready.

>
> Which brings me to otl2html. With a basic stylesheet and a little bit of
> extra processing for check boxes, I'm producing outlines like this one
> in my wiki: http://kitenet.net/~joey/boxen/kite/move.html
> Pretty happy with how that looks, but the underlying html is bad:
> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://kitenet.net/~joey/boxen/kite/mo
>ve.html
>
> otl2html doesn't produce valid xhtml, since it doesn't close <li> tags.
> It also has a few other problems, like not wrapping everything inside
> <ol> tags in <li>. I wonder if that could be fixed so it generates valid
> xhtml? I don't speak python well, or I'd try to fix it. (If I have to
> tackle this myself, I'll probably end up writing a perl library, since
> that would be a better fit for me.)

I think I can fix that.

>
> One other nice improvement in otl2html would be to find bare urls and
> mark them up as hyperlinks.

This shouldn't be a hard addition.

Thanks again for the positive feedback.

Noel

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