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

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 11:07:45PM -0400, DaveG wrote:
> Basically what I'm suggesting is to just use %left% and %right% for 
> images as well as paragraphs. Make the code work out which to apply, 
> rather than the user.

Unfortunately it's not nearly that simple.  %left% and %right%
are really shortcuts for %block text-align=left% and
%block text-align=right%, and they can occur in the middle of
other structures -- i.e., one could decide to write

    %color=red right font-family=Arial%

and we'd have to detect it somehow.  

At any rate, %right% and %left% do work; they simply don't float.

Pm


> DaveG wrote:
> 
> >>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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