At the moment I opted for Creole but I'm not sure whether this was decision has a future as Creole development stoped a few year ago (The Creole is live press release is from 2007!) and Markdown is still active (The most recent news is from 2009 :-( ! not so recent any more, actually). Moreover markdown is integrated into Django. Some more differences important to my application are listed in the table below.
| feature |
Creole |
Markdown |
| Link |
http://wikicreole.org/wiki/Home |
http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/ |
| Tables |
colspan and rowspan not allowed |
colspan and rowspan not allowed |
| Macros/Extensions |
Macros can be easily handled
from Creole text |
Extensions are probably a more powerful tool,
but more complex to handle |
| TOC |
I already implemented table of content as a macro |
Table of content is an extension
that I didn't test so far |
| References |
I Already have an idea
how to implement references |
A new extension is necessary, probably |
More Markdown feature not so important at the moment are listed here. Definitely I have to learn how to write extensions, so I can improve my pythoknowledge and evaluate the efforts necessary to write or change an extension.
