[Pmwiki-users] PmWiki WikiStyles implementation testers needed
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff at pobox.com
Fri Feb 14 11:45:50 CST 2003
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 11:40:45AM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 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?
>
Just the second bullet.
> > > * 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.
Looks good to me.
> > You still might have a problem with premature WikiStyle termination
> > though.
>
> Can you explain what you mean here?
Nope. It was a fleeting thought that upon reflection makes no sense.
-Scott
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