[Pmwiki-users] Re: Idea for extension of special list syntax

chr@home.se chr
Sat Jan 22 09:22:12 CST 2005


On Fri, 21 Jan 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> > Do you still feel that way if we make it clear that it's the position of 
> > the starting text of the element that the following text need to be 
> > aligned with?  
> 
> Okay, I'll bite -- exactly how do we make it clear?  I.e., could you
> write the text and examples that explain it?  ;-)

I'd be happy to write documentation (text/examples) if you afterwards try
to come up with a a piece of .php-code that implements it. I know I'd be
using that recipe on my sites - maybe this a good way to move forward?  
The code would initially only have to handle items in levels one, two and
three - I suspect that'd be the majority of the cases anyway.

> And what happens with...
> 
>     * Level 1 item
>       This is part of the level 1 item
>     ** Level 2 item
>     ** Level 2 item
>        This is a part of the level 2 item
>       Is this preformatted text?

Yes, that's preformatted text in my mind but I'm not religous about it ;-)
Others might prefer a more relaxed interpretation, but then you'd need
something else to get preformatted text.

These kinds of questions should become clear if I write some text and
examples, so if you'd like we could discuss it after I've written that.

> or ....
> 
>     *      Level 1 item
>            This is part of the level 1 item
>     ** Level 2 item
>     ** Level 2 item
>        This is part of the level 2 item
>            What is this?

The last line should be preformatted text...

It doesn't solve the problem of continuing a previous item this way... but
I think Neil is right about counting spaces being bad in this case.

/Christian

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