[pmwiki-users] improved markup for floating images...?

[Ed W]

>The wikistyles documentation has long been out-of-date; in fact, there's
>even a PITS entry for it: http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00006
>  
>

OK, well just the stuff we talked about here would be a good cut-n-paste 
improvement.


>I'm thinking that the standard syntax for images of this type will 
>end up being something like
>
>   %imright framed% Attach:image.gif [[<<]] Caption
>
>which will work without having to worry about nested divs/tables.
>The main thing I'm not sure about is the "imright" name.
>  
>

Yep, that looks good.  But what does [[<<]] do?  Is there a pointer to 
that documentation?


>>- Personally I would love to see it possible to nest *advanced* 
>>tables.... (They are advanced after all...)
>>    
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>
>The problem with nesting of any structure is that authors have to add 
>lots of end-tags in order for PmWiki to be able to figure out the nesting
>sequence.
>

Yeah, but I thought that end tags were broadly required with advanced 
tables?  You would only need to close the inner ones anyway.

>My strong opinion is that for nested tables one should
>simply enable and use the HTML table syntax directly.
>

Yeah, I can see that is probably the right thing to do...

Have you seen the fairly new table syntax in media-wiki?  It is kind of 
a cross between pm simple and advanced syntax.  Might be worth perusing 
at some point.


>This could be done.  More to the point, the width= and height=
>wikistyle attributes could fairly easily detect that they're working
>on an image attachment and adjust the url appropriately, so that
>the syntax remains exactly the same for sites that have resizing
>capabilities as for those that do not.
>  
>

Can you give me a walk through of the Attach code?  I have a quick poke 
around, but I couldn't quite see how it created the links on the page.  
It's not that easy to follow through the upload either, but I think I 
need to do some tracing throught the code to understand that better?  If 
you can give me a leg up I can see if I can have a bash at what we 
discussed above for the resizing

Thanks

Ed W