getlantern/lantern — Issue #177: add (lightweight markup language)-to-html api?
Author: pants
Created: 2012-02-14 14:48:19+00:00
State: open
Labels: http server, PRIORITY‽

lantern currently uses rst2a.com to format the reStructuredText CHANGELOG as html for the "update" panel. of course rst2a.com just went down and (ahem) caught me with my pants down (see #176). if we could perform this functionality ourselves locally it would eliminate the dependency on a server beyond our control and allow us to bundle docs from our wiki (perhaps included as a submodule in the main repo) in the installed version and then display them nicely formatted on the desktop with no internet connection necessary to view them. switching to markdown + http://code.google.com/p/markdownj/ might be a good option.