[Pmwiki-users] why underline does not exist ?

[garfield_fr]

I think two underscores is a good markup sequence for underline. I'll add your code to my local.php ...

garfield_fr

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>
To: "garfield_fr" <garfield_fr at tiscali.fr>
Cc: <Pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 6:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Pmwiki-users] why underline does not exist ?


> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:15:31PM +0200, garfield_fr wrote:
> > hello !
> > 
> > this style does'nt exist !! I known it's possible to do it with 
> > wikistyle but the basic user have bold, italic ...but not underline
> 
> As with most items, adding this feature needs a good markup sequence.
> My best ideas off of the top of my head would be
> 
>    __this text is underlined__   (two underscores)
>    [_this text is underlined_]   (bracket+underscore)
> 
> The first one can be easily done by placing the following in local.php:
> 
>   $InlineReplacements["/__(.*?)__/"] = "<u>\$1</u>";
> 
> Note, however, that the <u> tag has been deprecated in HTML 4.x and is not
> available in XHTML 1.1, so it's not really a good "standard" to use.  Instead,
> we might be able to do
> 
>   $InlineReplacements["/__(.*?)__/"] = 
>     "<span style='text-decoration:underline'>\$1</span>";
> 
> but I don't know how widely supported this will be by various browsers.
> 
> If I hear enough comments in favor of adding one of the above markups
> to the standard PmWiki distribution I'll do it.
> 
> Pm
>