[pmwiki-users] extendable div markup possiblility

dan mcmullen bang at pacific.net
Sun Apr 17 10:40:58 CDT 2005


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> This is going to be the div markup, which will look like:
> 
>    >>personA<<
>    says this
>    and this and this
>    etc...any other kind of wiki markup
>    >><<

since it has been somewhat difficult to find a new concise markup for div, i've been 
wondering if there are options that might be more open to future expansion?  one 
possiblility that has occurred to me is something like this:

    >>-personA>
    says this
    and that
    <<-

the idea is that '>>' and '<<' are used to flag a third character which opens up a new 
set of 3 character shortcuts.  in this example i'm using a '-' to suggest "division", 
but there may be something better for that.

it's possible these '>>' markups could generally be used for higher level constructs 
compared to the lower level formatting constructs.  having an entirely new set of 
possibilities for the 3 character opens up a symbolic space for these perhaps.

any other ideas out there along these lines?

enjoy! /dan
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dan mcmullen, ca, usa                                   be easy - be !
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