[pmwiki-users] pmwiki.org recipeinfo magic

[Stirling Westrup]

Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> I've been wondering -- how is it that on the Cookbook pages of
> pmwiki.org, when one sets
> 
>>> recipeinfo<<
> Summary: yadda yadda yadda
> Version: 2006...
> ...
>>> <<
> 
> then all the content inside that div appears to have "linebreaks" set
> on, magically?

Pm Cheated. He defined a custom markup for all lines starting with a word that
 begins with a capital and ends in a colon. The markup puts each such line in
a div with a class name which is generated from the starting word. Thus a line
(anywhere in a Cookbook page) that starts like this:

  Fish: lemon sauce is good.

gets rendered something like

  <div class="property-Fish">lemon sauce is good.</div>

and naturally most browsers render each div starting with its own line. I
figured this all out because I wanted to define a wikistyle that could set
linebreak behaviour. (as it appeared that recipeinfo did) but if its doable,
its not as easy as one might hope.