[Pmwiki-users] PmWiki WikiStyles implementation testers needed
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at sci.tamucc.edu
Fri Feb 14 11:40:45 CST 2003
On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:12:44AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > Some possible solutions:
> > * Require everything in a WikiStyle to be in the form [name]=[value].
> > Then %=red% would mean to use the previous WikiStyle that had "define=red"
> > in it.
> > * Require that the first character following the leading % in a WikiStyle
> > be a letter. This would eliminate the mis-classifications that occur in
>
> I like this one.
Do you mean just the second bullet or both bullets?
> > * Other ideas?
> Change the markup such that the WikiStyle is delimited by unlikely
> digraphs. For instance, %%define=foo color=red%% %%foo%%. How often
> do you see 2 consecutive percent signs?
Of course this can be done but I'm not sure i like it.
> %^define=foo color=red%
> %^red%This text is red red red %^%
This is better but I don't like having extra characters if I can avoid it.
Another possibility is to replace your caret with a percent sign:
> %%define=foo color=red%
> %%red%This text is red red red %%%
and that ought to be quite safe.
> You still might have a problem with premature WikiStyle termination
> though.
Can you explain what you mean here?
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