[Pmwiki-users] Re: Need help with markup
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at sci.tamucc.edu
Tue Oct 15 16:20:58 CDT 2002
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:26:22PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > I've just run into a couple of situations where having some sort of
> > large-scale table control is really necessary if I'm going to use
> > PmWiki as a web-maintenance engine.
>
> Can you give a for-instance?
http://falcon.tamucc.edu/wiki/IO2/StudentHome
> I'll just reiterate my suggestion of using = (It's just like the
> other table markup only rotated 90 degrees :-)
So, "=word" will always be some sort of directive that appears at the
beginning of a line and does something special?
I'll consider it. However, this overloads pretty quickly:
=biblio book entry in bibliographic format
=pullquote pullquote
=q question (e.g., in a FAQ, similar to what I'm currently
doing with "Q:" )
=a answer (e.g., in a FAQ, similar to what I'm currently
doing with "A:" )
=#i ordered list, lower case roman (more #'s == deeper list)
=#I ordered list, upper case roman
=#a ordered list, a, b, c, d, e...
=#A ordered list, A, B, C, D, E...
=table table attributes for upcoming table
=cell new table cell
=cell nextrow new table cell on next row
=tableend end of table
One thing I dislike about the =cell syntax is that it's harder to do
attribute processing. In other words, with [[cell]] I can do:
[[cell align=center]] First cell
[[cell align=left]] Second cell
[[cell width=200]] Third cell
[[endtable]]
but with =cell I must do:
=cell align=center
First cell
=cell align=left
Second cell
=cell width=200
Third cell
=endtable
Somehow I think the first one looks a bit better to me.
Is this all a slippery slope sort of proposition...?
Pm
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