Textile alternative

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Hi!

I am looking for a little advice here.

I am currently using Textile for my website. Redactors are allowed to use plain HTML or Textile without limitation, and readers (for comments) are only allowed to usec :filter_styles-ized Textile (I don't want them to use style="font-size: 10000pt;")

However, as RedCloth is not supported anymore (I know of SuperRedCloth, which was not feature-complete, espacially as far as filtering is concerned, but there hasn't been any new version since the first one...).

I know of markdown, and I have been suggested to use Wiki syntax, which is well-known.

I am most interested in your experience. Do you know of a Wiki Parser which is not integrated in a complete-featured wiki? (I just need a wiki-to-HTML parser for my existing website).

Here are my requirements:

- External and independant (simple Wiki-to-HTML parser) - Full-featured (tables, images, etc.) - Ability to filter HTML for comments (with the parser itself, or external tool/filter?)

So if you know of a solution, I would really apperciate a little advice!

Thank you very much!!

Nauhaie

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Nauhaie,

I'm interested in what others may offer, but one thing you might consider is dropping in TinyMCE: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ and using that for your text areas. Then, instead of users having to use or know markup or markdown, they have a nice graphical toolbar (ala Word). I used it in a Rails app and it was nice to have the specific editor-type features I wanted, including a couple of customized ones.

HTH!

-Danimal