[pmwiki-users] FAQ Page Layout

[John Rankin]

On Thursday, 4 August 2005 12:42 PM, H. Fox <haganfox at gmail.com> wrote:
>On 04 Aug 2005 12:20:21 +1200, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
[snip]
>> Isn't it a case of redefining the classes for p.question and
>q.answer?
>
>I don't think so.  Only the first paragraph of an answer gets the
>styling (left-margin, for example).  Some parts of an answer (code
>snippets, for example) aren't paragraphs.
>
>[snip]  It seems like Pm
>wold rather redefine the Q:/A: markup instead of using div
>markup though...
>
I agree about the 'answer is often a block' comment. A couple
of thoughts:

1. I came across the idea of 'multiparagraph markup' -- example:

A:This is the start of an answer.*
The end of line asterisk says we are starting a new paragraph
but it's still in the same semantic block.*
And this is a third paragraph in the block.

And this is a paragraph in a new semantic block.

This multiparagraph markup construct is quite general. Consider:
* an item *
a paragraph, but still part of the item
* another item *
with another paragraph *
and another one

:a term:its definition *
another paragraph in the definition

and so on...

2. Another option would be:

>>qanda<<
Q: A question

A: Its answer

More answer information
>><<

>From a structural point of view, the question and its answer 
are arguably part of the same semantic block.


The second is available now; the first is, I think, fairly
easy to implement, perhaps as a local customisation.

-- 
JR
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John Rankin