Cookbook -was [pmwiki-users] PmWiki/DocumentationIndex

Hans design at flutesong.fsnet.co.uk
Sun Jun 19 01:33:19 CDT 2005


Sunday, June 19, 2005, 2:22:08 AM, Patrick wrote:
> Alas, although it does look very nice -- I'm not to keen on the
> redesign -- I don't like the way it complicates the markup.  Markup
> on the pmwiki.org page needs to be simple, and not a lot of (:cell:)
> tags everywhere.  We can see about developing another markup that
> makes a better display, but I'd really like PmWiki page markups
> to remain simple.  Otherwise, people viewing PmWiki page source
> are very likely to get frightened off by the whole thing.

Sorry, Patrick. I started initiating this redesign, and using advanced
table markup plus putting list items always on a new line, so they are
the first thing on the line, was the only way I knew (and maybe is at
present).

So if we want to create a list which has explanations in tabular
format, would it be possible to augment the simple table syntax so it
accepts list items in the first cell of each row? Like this:

||
||*[[link 1]] || explanation one ||
||*[[link 2]] || explanation two ||

this would look a lot easier in markup.

perhaps it needs to be even more expanded to allow list items in any
cell, to create multi-column tabular lists, like

||
||*[[link 1]] ||*[[link 2]] ||
||*[[link 3]] ||*[[link 4]] ||

This all looks a lot easier than the html output!

Or are we stuck with having explanation text following a list link
item directly, like

*[[link 1]] - explanation one
*[[link 2]] - explanation two

?

Best, 
~Hans                           




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