[pmwiki-users] improved markup for floating images...?
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu Jul 28 22:17:20 CDT 2005
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:07:45PM -0400, DaveG wrote:
> Basically what I'm suggesting is to just use %left% and %right% for
> images as well as paragraphs. Make the code work out which to apply,
> rather than the user.
Unfortunately it's not nearly that simple. %left% and %right%
are really shortcuts for %block text-align=left% and
%block text-align=right%, and they can occur in the middle of
other structures -- i.e., one could decide to write
%color=red right font-family=Arial%
and we'd have to detect it somehow.
At any rate, %right% and %left% do work; they simply don't float.
Pm
> DaveG wrote:
>
> >>Note that %left% and %right% aren't readily available, as they're
> >
> >
> >Why make the difference visible to the user? Why not make pmwiki
> >determine what comes next, and act appropriately, thus the user
> >doesn't need to be concerned with the difference between text nd pics.
> >Either way they want left or right justification.
> >
> >~ ~ Dave
> >
> >
> >
> >Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> >
> >>Currently PmWiki uses %align=left% and %align=right% in front
> >>inlined images to indicate floating left and floating right images,
> >>with text wrapping around the image as appropriate. Thus, one might see
> >>
> >> %align=left% http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/ptart-1c.gif
> >> Here is some text that will wrap around the right of the above image.
> >>
> >>As many have remarked, one of the issues with the existing
> >>implementation
> >>is that the floating image has no margin (ugly), and there's not an
> >>easy way
> >>to set one. This is being fixed.
> >>
> >>But what I can really use some help with at the moment is identifying
> >>wikistyle names that easily indicate "float image left with margin"
> >>and "float image right with margin". Ideally whatever we come up with
> >>ought to be fewer characters than the existing %align=left%, which
> >>is a bit of a pain to type.
> >>
> >>So far the best I've been able to come up with are %imgleft% and
> >>%imgright%, but I'm not totally satisfied with those. Other
> >>possibilities might be %ileft% and %iright%, which are a bit more
> >>cryptic but fewer characters.
> >>Note that %left% and %right% aren't readily available, as they're
> >>already used for left/right justification of paragraphs and other
> >>items. Otherwise I would've probably gone with %img left% and %img
> >>right%.
> >>(Although maybe %img-left% and %img-right% would be okay.)
> >>
> >>Anyone else have any ideas for what we could use for this...?
> >>
> >>Pm
> >>
> >>P.S.: For those who may be concerned... no, I'm not planning to
> >>eliminate
> >>%align=left% and %align=right% -- they will remain as before. I'm
> >>simply
> >>wanting to come up with a better markup that does what one generally
> >>wants to have done when floating an image left or right.
> >>
> >>
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