[pmwiki-users] preformatted text block *with* formatting? (bug in [@..@] ?)

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 12:23:52PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 01:45:47PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > 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
>  
> Hm.  This was exactly what I wanted.  I speak an hour yesterday reading
> through the docs trying to find this kind of syntax.  I kept finding
> cookbook entries for stuff that should be simple.  Why is this page in the
> SandBox and not in the real docs?

Because I don't know where to put it...?  I'm more serious than humorous
here -- many times things aren't in the "real docs" because I have 
no clue where it should logically go without making a documentation 
page overly complex or incoherent.

> Anyway, I'll keep looking but what I'm really looking for is a simple way
> to define a span.  Something like this
> 
> Define a local css class in pub/css/local.css:
>     .example { font-family:monospace; white-space:pre; bgcolor:white; }
> 
> >>example<<
> text
> >><<
> 
> Which would hopefully give me 
> 
> <span class="example">
> text
> </span>

That's a WikiStyle.  Define your local css class, and then use

   %example% text %%

to produce  <span class='example'> text </span> .

(Note that WikiStyles can do much more than just CSS, but that's the
basic approach for CSS.)

Pm