pgsql and asciidoc output

On 02/11/2014 11:56 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Someone suggested that 'asciidoc'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format
for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and
troff.

Would this be useful?

Perhaps, but if we're going to add a text markup format then we'll have
to choose one out of many.

I personally find Markdown to be more pleasing to the eye than AsciiDoc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

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On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Someone suggested that 'asciidoc'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format
for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and
troff.

Would this be useful?

Less so than Markdown[1]Markdown tables aren’t quite as built-in as asciidocs, but I suspect a lot more people use markdown., IMO. (Or CSV or xlsx, come to that.)

There’s a long list of potentially useful output formats. How pluggable
is the output formatter?

Cheers,
Steve

[1]: Markdown tables aren’t quite as built-in as asciidocs, but I suspect a lot more people use markdown.
a lot more people use markdown.

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2014-02-12 0:25 GMT+01:00 Vik Fearing <vik.fearing@dalibo.com>:

On 02/11/2014 11:56 PM, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Someone suggested that 'asciidoc'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format
for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and
troff.

Would this be useful?

Perhaps, but if we're going to add a text markup format then we'll have
to choose one out of many.

I personally find Markdown to be more pleasing to the eye than AsciiDoc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

Markdown is really well know now, and can be useful - but there is small
differences between implementations - wikipedia, github, jira

but implementation can be really nice

Pavel

I second Bruce. I massively use asciidoc. I guess adding both asciidoc and
md would not be too hard.

Thanks,
Gabriele

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2014-02-12 6:02 GMT+01:00 Pavel Stehule <pavel.stehule@gmail.com>:

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>

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Subject: [GENERAL] pgsql and asciidoc output

Someone suggested that 'asciidoc'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format
for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and
troff.

Would this be useful?

Not sure about the arguments for and against either, but I'm rather fond of markdown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown)

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 03:32:32PM -0800, Steve Atkins wrote:

On Feb 11, 2014, at 2:56 PM, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> wrote:

Someone suggested that 'asciidoc'
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsciiDoc) would be a good output format
for psql, similar to the existing output formats of html, latex, and
troff.

Would this be useful?

Less so than Markdown[1], IMO. (Or CSV or xlsx, come to that.)

There’s a long list of potentially useful output formats. How pluggable
is the output formatter?

It isn't hard to add new formats --- you are passed a table structure
and you printf the output. Here is the HTML format output function:

http://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=blob;f=src/bin/psql/print.c;h=79fc43eeda3330873acbea4ad1c555e051e81d00;hb=HEAD#l1394

I did the latex-longtable format for PG 9.3. The difficulty was
understanding the latex-longtable format specification, not writing the
C code.

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 06:02:29AM +0100, Pavel Stehule wrote:

Perhaps, but if we're going to add a text markup format then we'll have
to choose one out of many.

I personally find Markdown to be more pleasing to the eye than AsciiDoc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown

Markdown is really well know now, and can be useful - but there is small
differences between implementations - wikipedia, github, jira
but implementation can be really nice

OK, great. Would the markdown implementation differences affect the
psql table output, or are the differences in things we don't need to
worry about?

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 08:48:49AM +0100, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:

I second Bruce. I massively use asciidoc. I guess adding both asciidoc and md
would not be too hard.

Agreed. Assuming there are no objections, I will add it to the TODO
list.

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On 2/11/14, 6:25 PM, Vik Fearing wrote:

I personally find Markdown to be more pleasing to the eye than AsciiDoc.

Markdown can embed HTML tables, so there is nothing that we need to
implement.

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