More details on my personal preferences (as related to Ikiwiki.)

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 … To put it short: an Ikiwiki newbie.
 
+[Emacs]: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
+[Lynx]: http://lynx.isc.org/
+
+## Wikis
+
 Currently, I run a couple of Ikiwiki instances.  Namely:
 
 * <http://lhc.am-1.org/lhc/>
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   Economy&rdaquo; (2010-03-29 &hellip; 2010-04-10, Altai State
   University) program I've recently recently participated in as
   an instructor.
+
+## Preferences
+
+I prefer to use [Lynx][] along with [Emacs][] (via
+`emacsclient`) to work with the wikis.  (Note the &ldaquo;Local
+variables&rdaquo; section below.)
+
+The things I dislike in the wiki engines are:
+
+* the use of home-brew specialized version control systems
+  &mdash; while there're a lot of much more developed general
+  purpose ones;
+
+* oversimplified syntax
+  &mdash; which (to some extent) precludes more sophisticated
+  forms of automated processing; in particular, this forces one
+  to reformat the material, once complete, to, say, prepare a
+  book, or an article, or slides.
+
+Out of all the wiki engines I'm familiar with, only Ikiwiki is
+free of the first of these.  I hope that it will support more
+elaborate syntaxes eventually.
+
+----
+
+    Local variables:
+    mode: markdown
+    coding: utf-8
+    fill-column: 64
+    ispell-dictionary: "american"
+    End: