[pmwiki-users] preformatted text block *with* formatting? (bug in [@..@] ?)
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed May 24 13:45:47 CDT 2006
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:29:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> It would appear that [@...@] also assumes [=...=]. This isn't documented
> clearly.
It does. [@...@] at one time was really a shortcut for @@[=...=]@@.
> It also presents problems for creating documentation, where variables and
> such are italicized. I need to do large blocks of text like so
>
> [@
> $ run this command
> ''see this italicized output''
> $ run this command
> see this 'italicized word'' in a larger output
> see this clickable http://link/to/somewhere in the output
> $ run this command with an ''italicized word'' in the middle
> see this normal output
> @]
>
> I really need the ability to get a monospaced font over a large block of
> text *but with normal pmwiki formatting*. How can I do this?
Well, the simple way to do it is to just preceed each line with whitespace:
$ run this command
''see this italicized output''
$ run this command
see this 'italicized word'' in a larger output
see this clickable http://link/to/somewhere in the output
$ run this command with an ''italicized word'' in the middle
see this normal output
But another way to do it is using font-family:monospace :
(:linebreaks:)
>>font-family:monospace<<
$ run this command
''see this italicized output''
$ run this command
see this 'italicized word'' in a larger output
see this clickable http://link/to/somewhere in the output
$ run this command with an ''italicized word'' in the middle
see this normal output
>><<
Another way of doing it is to define a local css class in pub/css/local.css:
.pre { font-family:monospace; white-space:pre; }
and then do
>>pre<<
$ run this command
''see this italicized output''
$ run this command
see this 'italicized word'' in a larger output
see this clickable http://link/to/somewhere in the output
$ run this command with an ''italicized word'' in the middle
see this normal output
>><<
See each of the above at http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/PreWithFormatting.
> Honestly, I think that making [@ be different from @@ is a bug. If you
> want monospaced font *and* no formatting, you can do this
>
> [@ [= ... =] @]
Actually, that becomes @@[= ... =]@@, as mentioned before.
The purpose of [@...@] is to have large blocks of monospace text
with no formatting, because those occur quite frequently in pages.
The case you describe--display a block of monospace text where
formatting is honored is *much less* common. (I speak from years
of experience here.) At any rate, there are far too many sites
making use of the existing [@...@] markup for it to be changed now.
Pm
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