Hi! I started to look at Rebol around 2002, but then had no time to go deep enough in the language. I started again around 2005-2006 and again time was lacking to go. Now I want to start again and even I have a problem to solve. (transfering bibliographic database from EndNote export to BibTeX) But what to use Rebol 2 or Rebol 3? The documents I'll have to work on are in utf8. So R3 seems better, but there is the problem of documentation!! Is there a pdf version of the R3 manual? Thanks for your advices. Would it be a good idea to start a discussion on the problem I mentioned, here on this list, as an example/exercice for others? Thanks, Alain
I'm not aware of any pdf docs .. they're all wiki based now. If you don't need a GUI then r3 is the way to go as long as you don't need to use one of the elements of parse that are buggy. Check out http://www.curecode.org for r3 parse bugs.
You can process utf-8 data in Rebol 2 but not as easily as in Rebol 3. Rebol's Parse dialect will be ideal for converting your text from EndNote export format to BibTex. I suggest you use Rebol 2 for its better documentation. (Rebol 3's documentation will be better once it's finished but that may be a long time yet.) I found this to be a very good tutorial for parse - http://www.codeconscious.com/rebol/parse-tutorial.html Here is an example of processing utf-8 encoded text in Rebol - http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=str-enc-utils.r
You can also checkout the scripts http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=makespec.r and http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=rebdoc.r as example.
