[Pmwiki-users] Markup...

[Christian Ridderström]

On 12 Jan 2004, John Rankin wrote:

> ...
> 
> Well, since I (for some reason) have been using
> 
> 	::Text
> 
> instead of
> 
> 	: :Text
> 
> to indent my stuff I'm quite used to escaping the colons. Maybe
> 
> 	::Text
> 
> should just be interpreted as normal text? (Thereby forcing the user to 
> add the space).
> 
---

> 
> I use a local customisation that:
> 
> - looks for 
> 
>    ::or more colons starting a paragraph that otherwise contains no colons
> 
> - turns it into
> 
>    : :starting a paragraph...
> 
> - turns
> 
>    : :starting a paragraph...
> 
> into the 
> 
>    ->indent start of line markup
> 
> and then turn this into blockquotes.
> 
> Works for multiple start of line colons.

Ok... now I have to ask: Is there a difference between:

	::Some text

and	
	: :Some text

I thought they produced the same output? Or maybe the question should be:
Why does "::Some text" work at all as it is now?

This page:
 http://www.lyx.org/~chr/attachlist/pmwiki.php?pagename=Test.ColonMarkup
with this markup:
	::Colons without space
	: :Colons with space

	Some text in between

	::Colons without space

	More text in between

	: :Colons with space

produces this HTML (I've reformatted it)

	<p />
	<dl >
		<dt></dt>
			<dd>Colons without space</dd>
		<dt> </dt>
			<dd>Colons with space<p /></dd>
	</dl>
	Some text in between
	<p />
	<dl >
	<dt></dt>
		<dd>Colons without space<p /></dd>
	</dl>
	More text in between<p />
	<dl >
		<dt> </dt>
			<dd>Colons with space<p /><p /></dd>
	</dl>

So I'm just confused now... why use a definition list to insert quotes 
(indented paragraph), instead of <div>...</div>?

/Christian

-- 
Dr. Christian Ridderstr?m, +46-8-768 39 44       http://www.md.kth.se/~chr