[pmwiki-users] TextFormatting: [+ big +] vs. '+ big +'

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Jun 23 11:36:14 CDT 2006


On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 12:32:15AM +0200, Christian Bartolomaeus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I always used [+ +] and [- -] for bigger or smaller text. That's what
> Site/EditQuickReference [actually it was the former
> PmWiki/EditQuickReference] told me to do when I started using PmWiki
> and I never thought about it anymore. 
> 
> Just today, after someone asked on pmwiki-users-de, I noticed that the
> guiedit button for "small text" uses '-small text-' and the button for
> "big text" uses '+big text+'. 
> 
> I took a look at scripts/stdmarkup.php and learned that the different
> methods generate different HTML-Output:
> 
>   [-text-] -> <small>text</small>
>   [+text+] -> <big>text</big>
> 
>   '-text-' -> <span style='font-size:80%'>text</span>  # or similar
>   '+text+' -> <span style='font-size:120%'>text</span> # or similar

Actually, this is backwards... [-text-] and [+text+] produce the <span>...</span>,
and '-text-' and '+text+' produce <small> and <big>.

> * EditQuickReference only mentions [- -] and [+ +]
> * BasicEdition also mentions only [- -] and [+ +]
> * MarkupMasterIndex mentions both methods but doesn't give further
>   informations
> * TextFormattingRules gives [- -] and [+ +] as the "main" method and
>   mentions '- -' '+ +' as "other styling"
> 
> So my question is: Is there a recommendation which method to use? If
> so, I would suggest to change the Documentation accordingly. (I can do
> that next week.)

There's not a "always use xyz" recommendation.  One advantage of the [-...-]
and [+...+] formats is that one can easily increase/decrease the amount of
change.  But either option is valid.

Pm




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