[pmwiki-users] Pre-alpha rich text WYSIWTF editor

ccox@endlessnow.com ccox at endlessnow.com
Wed Mar 30 11:29:10 CDT 2011


Think of this kind of thing like many html editors. The editor handles only a subset and provides a way to see the things not known.  Thus if you stay within known it will almost wysiwyg .... almost.  Go outside... then it starts to break down... sorry for the typos.. phone.

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From: "Oliver Betz" <list_ob at gmx.net>
Date: Wed, Mar 30, 2011 10:16 am
Subject: [pmwiki-users] Pre-alpha rich text WYSIWTF editor
To: <pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>

Petko Yotov wrote:

>> >It is exactly the opposite: there are just too many possibilities in wiki
>> >markup that produce HTML that can never be reverted back to its source
>> >wiki markup. For example dynamic PageLists, WikiTrails, PageVariables,
>> >Includes, picture galleries... :-)
>> 
>> Wouldn't be a WYSI* editor handling PmWiki markup directly the
>> technically best solution?
>
>One could argue that wiki code is exactly "What You See Is What You Mean", 
>only new users don't intuitively know what
>
>  %red newwin rel=nofollow%'''click [[{*$FullName}?action=edit|here]]'''%%
>
>means and cannot express themselves with it. :-) Even more true for those who 
>don't speak English.
>
>I don't know what is the best solution -- what follows is just brainstorming.
>
>It is so hard to edit without a recent JavaScript-enabled browser, that I 
>contemplate writing a JavaScript wiki2html2wiki parser that would read and 

My question was meant "(why) do we need/want intermediate html (or
RTF) instead of processing PmWiki markup directly by the WYSIWYG
editor?".

I guess you want HTML to be able to use existing editors?

And converting to/from HTML is simpler than getting native PmWiki
support from a WYSIWIG editor?

Oliver


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