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

DaveG pmwiki at solidgone.com
Thu Jul 28 22:07:45 CDT 2005


Basically what I'm suggesting is to just use %left% and %right% for 
images as well as paragraphs. Make the code work out which to apply, 
rather than the user.

 ~ ~ Dave

DaveG wrote:

>> Note that %left% and %right% aren't readily available, as they're
>
>
> Why make the difference visible to the user? Why not make pmwiki 
> determine what comes next, and act appropriately, thus the user 
> doesn't need to be concerned with the difference between text nd pics. 
> Either way they want left or right justification.
>
> ~ ~ Dave
>
>
>
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
>> Currently PmWiki uses %align=left% and %align=right% in front
>> inlined images to indicate floating left and floating right images,
>> with text wrapping around the image as appropriate.  Thus, one might see
>>
>>    %align=left% http://www.pmichaud.com/toast/ptart-1c.gif
>>    Here is some text that will wrap around the right of the above image.
>>
>> As many have remarked, one of the issues with the existing 
>> implementation
>> is that the floating image has no margin (ugly), and there's not an 
>> easy way
>> to set one.  This is being fixed.
>>
>> But what I can really use some help with at the moment is identifying
>> wikistyle names that easily indicate "float image left with margin"
>> and "float image right with margin".  Ideally whatever we come up with
>> ought to be fewer characters than the existing %align=left%, which
>> is a bit of a pain to type.
>>
>> So far the best I've been able to come up with are %imgleft% and
>> %imgright%, but I'm not totally satisfied with those.  Other 
>> possibilities might be %ileft% and %iright%, which are a bit more 
>> cryptic but fewer characters. 
>> Note that %left% and %right% aren't readily available, as they're
>> already used for left/right justification of paragraphs and other
>> items.  Otherwise I would've probably gone with %img left% and %img 
>> right%.
>> (Although maybe %img-left% and %img-right% would be okay.)
>>
>> Anyone else have any ideas for what we could use for this...?
>>
>> Pm
>>
>> P.S.:  For those who may be concerned...  no, I'm not planning to 
>> eliminate
>> %align=left% and %align=right% -- they will remain as before.  I'm 
>> simply
>> wanting to come up with a better markup that does what one generally
>> wants to have done when floating an image left or right.
>>
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