[pmwiki-users] Proposed Default Stylesheet (pmwiki.css)

[Susan]

Are you thinking of changing the way PmWiki converts wiki-text to HTML, 
or just working on a style sheet?

Changing the way PmWiki converts wiki-text to HTML will likely mess up 
existing installations. However, if that's what you're considering, I'd 
say that blank vertical space in the wiki text gets eaten:

One newline character is ignored (converted to a space between words). 
Most authors can't tell whether they've included one or not.

(Option 1: Maybe an exception for <Hx> and <DT>, because they are 
usually only one-line. In this case, how would longer headings be 
indicated? I'd say not to use this option.)

Two newline characters close all open tags, up to but not including 
<DIV>. (<DIV> must be closed explicitly.)

Newline characters beyond two are ignored. If the author wants more 
blank space than given by the CSS, he must ask for it, not just keep 
hitting "enter".

Blocks of text begining with two newlines and no special code are 
considered <P>. (If Option 1 is used, the next line after <Hx> is 
assumed to be <P>.)

Most authors don't understand the difference between <P> and <BR>. So 
long as <P> don't have a special first line, and a two <BR> give the 
same blank space as an empty <P>, this doesn't matter. Otherwise, it's 
up to the administrator who chose the style-sheet to educate the authors.

A function to go through the wiki-text and replace single newlines with 
double ones would be useful for converting text from other programs.

Susan





Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 07:32:42PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
>>>and that would result in markup that doesn't include a "vspace
>>>paragraph" above or below the H2 heading.  If someone wants to add a
>>>little extra vspace, they could add an extra newline.
>>
>>Unfortunately, the way things are currently structured it's not really
>>that trivial to get a heading to eat exactly one newline (actually,
>><:vspace>) that follows.  But I guess I could come up with something.
> 
> 
> Never mind, I just figured out how to do it.  :-)
> 
> However, I still want to hear how one would handle the spacing of
> 
>     <h1>Heading</h1>
>     <p>some paragraph</p>
>     <p>another paragraph</p>
> 
> before I commit to eating newlines around headings.  
> 
> Pm