[Vimoutliner] Wiki markup in VO?

[Noel Henson]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 January 2008 14:38, Noel Henson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Now that my VO2LyX script handles body text, I'm writing a lot more
> > > of my book in VO. Therefore I need some markup. I've been preceding
> > > a word meant to be in italics with an exclamation point (!), and
> > > just started doing this !{all these words should be italic}.
> > >
> > > Has anyone come up with a good set of markups for body text?
> > >
> > > Noel -- do you have some built into VO like you have tables built
> > > into VO?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > SteveT
> > >
> > > Steve Litt
> > > Author: Universal Troubleshooting Process books and courseware
> > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > Another thought. For my otl2html script I use these to mark text:
> > //blah blah blah// for italic
> > **blah blah blah** for bold
> > +++blah blah blah+++ for highlight
> > ---blah blah blah--- for strikeout
> >
> > otl2html allows them to be nested so you can do bold/italic/highlight:
> > //**+++Insane+++**//
> >
> > Noel
>
> Thanks Noel,
>
> Are those markups pretty standard? What is highlight?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
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The ** and // are borrowed from early email and text documents where:
*whatever* meant you were typing on bold and /whatever/ meant italic. The 
+++ was something I added so I could highlight things on a web page.

You can see an example here:
http://www.noels-lab.com/otl2html.html

Noel

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