[pmwiki-users] improved markup for floating images...?

[Ed W]

>So far the best I've been able to come up with are %imgleft% and
>%imgright%, but I'm not totally satisfied with those.  Other 
>possibilities might be %ileft% and %iright%, which are a bit more 
>cryptic but fewer characters.  
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Ugg.. The more I play with pmwiki the more I feel that you violate your 
own rule to "keep it simple".  Compared with media-wiki I am finding it 
quite hard to figure out how to do more than basic markup...

Why don't we just introduce an img:xxx tag and use that?  Have a look at 
the way media-wiki does it - I quite like their syntax (It's on my todo 
list to have a bash at this img tag actually)

Also a lot of this formatting can probably be done more easily anyway if 
the table syntax could be nested and divs wrapped around stuff.  Yeah 
it's not perfect, but it's a lot easier to remember and more consistent 
if you just stick your image in a table and then format the table to be 
right aligned...

I have come up against the DIV limitation already - I wanted a table 
with some text aligned in all cells at the bottom of the cell - I 
figured using a div around the text to set the vertical-align property 
would do it, but of course one can't nest them...  grrr.  The table 
syntax itself is similarly frustrating because you seem to need to use 
straight tags for the table level syntax, and then style="xxx:yy" syntax 
for the cells...? 

I'm way off topic now, but my final gripe which is causing me pain is 
why something simple like %text-align=right% doesn't work (ie do 
anything)?  The help pages suggest that it should do so...?  Using %p 
text-align=right% is fine, but if you omit the block specification then 
it doesn't seem to work... (Actually why do we need a block level spec 
anyway?)

I think your syntax seems to be heading more and more towards early 
html.  Why not try and head more towards XML where you have a tag 
starting some syntax and then a definite end to the tag?  Just a thought

Ed W