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:::: I was assuming that the results would be comparable. So, for example, if one implementation treats hanging indentation as a paragraph format, another treats it as a list format and a third and fourth treats that case as a table (one as a single row table, another as a table with one row per line of plain text), what would we be comparing? Or, as an extreme case (emulating fixed width presentation despite the possible absence of any fixed-width fonts) I might represent plain text as a (borderless) table with one cell per character (and all the characters in the original which represent a url would have a link to the corresponding url). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 14:40, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
::::: well, yes, the results should be comparable. after the requirements are fixed. before that i hope we can explore which requirements are sensible by discussing them here, possibly including a few sample implementations that demonstrate how specific requirements can be met.--[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 15:03, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
I've done a Tcl “solution” to this that only handles a subset of all the things mentioned. In particular, it doesn't do links, centering or tables. The latter two are really rather optional IMO (I may add links later). But it does do (non-nested) numbered and bulleted lists, and it does headings too. It also does simple bold, italic and typewriter formatting; that actually covers enough to be useful. Remember, it shouldn't feel like ''work'' to implement an RC task! –[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]] 20:20, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
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::::: What is the difference between the rules you are suggesting here, and "markup"?
::::: Anyways, a google search for <code>plain text to html</code> finds numerous hits. Superficially speaking, it looks like http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/ does what you want (and its design should serve as a caution for this as a rosettacode task). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 17:48, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
:::::: i did search, but somehow i missed this one. interesting find,thank you! yes, it does pretty much what i want. and as you note it does to much to be suitable for a task. but perhaps a subset of its features that we can agree on would be appropriate?--[[User:EMBee|eMBee]] 16:22, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
::::::: Fine by me. Pick some feature set, list those features, and create some task examples? --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 02:12, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
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