[pmwiki-users] Re: floating box on the right

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Mar 25 10:44:05 CST 2005


On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 12:16:02PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > Here's a perhaps more concrete example (off the top of my head).
> > We could define a wikistyle attribute -- for convenience I'll name 
> > it "semantic" here -- then have any text with that attribute applied
> > rendered within a couple of appropriate HTML comments.
> > Thus:
> > 
> >    %define=embarrassed color=#ff69b4 semantic=embarrassed%
> >    I %embarrassed% can't believe %% I'm writing this.
> 
> How about instead of 'semantic' writing 'meaning', 'means' or 'comment', 
> e.g.
> 
> >    %define=embarrassed color=#ff69b4 meaning=embarrassed%
> 
> I'm uncertain if 'semantic' will be clear for average users, or am I
> confused and you don't mean 'semantic' as 'meaning' here?

No, I didn't have (or need) a better name at the time, so for the 
sake of the discussion I chose "semantic" knowing that we would
change it to something more appropriate later.

The best I've come up with so far are 'meaning' and 'tag'.

Pm



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