andrew said:
Just because you were not aware of RST being used on PG does not meean that it has been "hidden" from you. The idea of using it came from some volunteers from pgdp.
really? "the idea of using" light-markup as a master-format "came from some volunteers from pgdp"... really? well, let me congratulate those far-sighted pioneers. and you, andrew sly, you are one sly devil, aren't you? trying to rewrite history, right here, right in front of me. well, yeah... nice try, mr. sly, but no dice. the archives clearly prove that it was _one_person_ who introduced the idea of light-markup as master-format... a full 8 years ago. _and_ that a boatload of rocks were thrown at me for it. for years -- literal _years_ -- people threw mud at me... look at the archives if you don't believe me, people. if you don't _remember_ it, or if you were not here. because i remember it well, and quite vividly. i do. and i think you will too. unless you're repressing it. because lots and lots and lots of shit got pitched at me. mud and rocks, and insults and taunts, and i took it all. i took it, from a vicious pack of wolves out on an attack, and i withstood it, and i prevailed, and that's a fact, jack. and the person who threw the most rocks of all, even if he had such a bad aim that not a single one ever hit me, was marcello. the asshole. he was toothless, as a wolf, but he tried his hardest to be as viscous as he could be. perhaps you've seen the hate-site he put up about me? anyway... for years he insisted that my idea was stupid, that light-markup could never work on anything except the most simplistic documents, nothing that was "hard". so i let him bellow his ignorance for a good many years. until i felt he had wagered _all_ of his credibility on it... and then i set the trap. i simply mentioned in a post that the python community had been using a light-markup -- restructured-text --- for its documentation ever since the language went big... it was pretty hard for marcello, who was using python, to deny the reality that geeks were using light-markup. for documentation that was far from being "simplistic". so that shut him up, pretty much. but wait, there's more, because that wasn't the trap... so, once the kindle came out, marcello quickly realized that this was gonna be a big deal for project gutenberg -- when you look at the traffic stats, it's very obvious -- but he had to have a solution that would actually _work_, as opposed to the t.e.i. bullshit he had been advocating. bingo. he stepped in my trap, and picked up restructured-text. game, set, match, championship and trophy ceremony. did marcello ever admit he'd been defeated? course not. he's a class-one asshole who'll never admit he is wrong. did anyone here on this list ever admit they were wrong? course not. way too many assholes here to admit that... indeed, every once in a while, the wolf-pack still tries to mount an attack. but they're impotent -- merely flaccid. does that change that fact that i was right? not one bit. does that change the fact that i pioneered the idea here? no it doesn't. so, as much as you'd like to rewrite history, there ain't nobody here who's gonna buy your recycled lies. so if you ever want the proof, just go look at the archives. -bowerbird p.s. the delicious irony is that, for project gutenberg needs, restructured-text is still twice as complicated as it could be, and, given marcello's "charisma", thus fated to be albatross. fly, albatross, fly! i don't know why this albatross won't fly... p.p.s. for irony dessert, not that andrew can't spell "mean". he can _be_ mean, but can't spell it. what does that mean?