[pmwiki-users] [confluence / pmwiki ] {info:title= ...} macroto display a message in a box

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Thu May 3 14:23:26 CDT 2007


On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 03:17:56PM -0400, Ben Wilson wrote:
> On 5/3/07, Stéphane Heckel <hsteph at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> > "Hans" <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote :
> >
> > > nearest you get is here:
> > > http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/WikiStylesPlus
> >
> > Hi list,
> >
> > #1 is there any reason to not include this recipe in PmWiki's core by
> > default ?
> > #2 why the markup is >> << and not (:  :) ?
> 
> #2: I believe this is because directives use (e.g. (::)) came after
> and expanded in its role.

The markup is the PmWiki-standard >>div<< markup, which is 
used to apply a wikistyle to a (:div:).   

In terms of history, (:...:) and (:div:) came first, with >>xyz<<
coming in later as a useful visual shortcut for  
"(:div:)%xyz apply=div%" .

Pm



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