Hi guys! We are happy to announce that Circumflex 2.0.RC3 has just been released. Two more modules found their home among Circumflex projects: circumflex-markeven and circumflex-scalate.

Circumflex Markeven

For a long time we have enjoyed Markdown, an infamous text-to-html tool for writers. We even made our own port for Scala, formerly known as circumflex-md. As 2011 approaches and we are sitting in front of our Macs scratching our heads in desperate search for new ways to get some development fun, we realize that Markdown implementation is cool, but apparently not cool enough. No, really, walking thousand times with huge regexes over big articles is really an overkill. And some environments can’t rely on caching, making the whole beauty of Markdown ideas fade.

So, we brought you an Xmas present: Circumflex Markeven. Here’s a brief list of its features.

• It is at least 6 times faster than our circumflex-md.
• It is more structured (indents are now more important in lists).
• It has more strict syntax (whenever Markdown allows you several alternatives to write stuff, we leave only one).
• It supports tables and divs.
• It has a neat syntax to assign HTML id and class attributes to any block-level element.
• It has basic typographic enhancements and we plan to add more.
• It offers easy way to extend its capabilities with macros.

Circumflex Scalate Integration

Circumflex Web Applications can now take advantage of Scalate Template Engine. Since Scalate is fairly easy to embed into any environment, the solution is quick-and-dirty. You are welcome to contribute if you find out something missing.