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

[DaveG]

>Note that %left% and %right% aren't readily available, as they're

Why make the difference visible to the user? Why not make pmwiki determine what comes next, and act appropriately, thus the user doesn't need to be concerned with the difference between text nd pics. Either way they want left or right justification.

 ~ ~ Dave



Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>Currently PmWiki uses %align=left% and %align=right% in front
>inlined images to indicate floating left and floating right images,
>with text wrapping around the image as appropriate.  Thus, one might see
>
>    %align=left% http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/ptart-1c.gif
>    Here is some text that will wrap around the right of the above image.
>
>As many have remarked, one of the issues with the existing implementation
>is that the floating image has no margin (ugly), and there's not an easy way
>to set one.  This is being fixed.
>
>But what I can really use some help with at the moment is identifying
>wikistyle names that easily indicate "float image left with margin"
>and "float image right with margin".  Ideally whatever we come up with
>ought to be fewer characters than the existing %align=left%, which
>is a bit of a pain to type.
>
>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.  
>
>Note that %left% and %right% aren't readily available, as they're
>already used for left/right justification of paragraphs and other
>items.  Otherwise I would've probably gone with %img left% and %img right%.
>(Although maybe %img-left% and %img-right% would be okay.)
>
>Anyone else have any ideas for what we could use for this...?
>
>Pm
>
>P.S.:  For those who may be concerned...  no, I'm not planning to eliminate
>%align=left% and %align=right% -- they will remain as before.  I'm simply
>wanting to come up with a better markup that does what one generally
>wants to have done when floating an image left or right.
>
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