Posted by Gour on Dec 25, 2015; 4:47pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/why-Pillar-tp4868487p4868495.html

On Pet, 2015-12-25 at 17:36 +0100, stepharo wrote:

> Pillar exists before Markdown.
> We did pillar syntax back in 2002.

Heh, it's interesting that both rst & AsciiDoc are also, according to
Wikipedia from 2002. :-)

What about Pillar and Pharo? Any additional advantage to use it?

> We do that with Pillar because we have the control over it and because
> we have it since long time. The seaside book was fully written in
> pillar.

Can Pillar handle footnotes? (I can't see on the cheetsheet.)

Seeing that quotes are used for *both* italic and bold, I wonder if
Pillar can do nested inline markup, like e.g. bold-italic? 

It's one of the design limit of rst, but AsciiDoc can handle it.


Sincerely,
Gour

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