[pmwiki-users] Question about the pmwiki editor and possibilities (advanced)

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Apr 2 11:58:14 CDT 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:29:32PM -0500, DaveG wrote:
> 
> 
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> <snip>
> >On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 07:52:29PM -0800, Michael P Nagy wrote:
> >Since local customization of markup is one of PmWiki's 
> >major strengths, that pretty much closes the door on WYSIWYG
> >editing until/unless we either decide to disallow custom markups,
> >or browser technologies improve to make it easier to have 
> >extensible WYSIWYG editing in the browser.  
> Why is this? Just because we have some wysiwyg, doesn't mean 
> *everything* has to be wysiwyg. Thus if we have custom markup continue 
> to display as it currently is. For the 'normal' markup (bold, italics, 
> heading, bullets, etc) do wysiwyg. The two are not mutually exclusive.

I agree they aren't mutually exclusive.  However, with the 
possible exception of bold and italic, the rest can still be 
quite difficult, especially if wikistyles are present.  And somehow 
just offering WYSIWYG for bold and italic seems underwhelming to me.

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