[Pmwiki-users] Markup...

[Christian Ridderström]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:34:26PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > [...]
> > So in conclusion:
> >  - If '::' should be a quoted thing, we should use <blockquote>
> >  - If '::' it should just be an indented thing we should be using <div>.
> 
> Well, PmWiki's '::' markup has never really meant "quoted text" nor
> "indented text", it's always been first-and-foremost a way to do definition
> lists.  It just so happens that many wikis (including PmWiki) have used it
> as a convenient mechanism for indented text.  So I don't plan to change
> the output of '::' itself.

I wrote a little while ago that I actually meant ': :', so I'll reply 
pretending (incorrectly) that's what Pm responded to :-)
> 
> I think that indented text and blockquotes are separate things.  I like the
> use of '-->' to mean "indent text", and following the HTML4 recommendations
> (9.2.2) we should not use <blockquote> as a means to indent text.  That
> leaves <div>.  

I agree, indented text and blockquotes have different purposes. 
Blockquotes are for quoting blocks of text (duh), whereas I used indented 
text for things like this:
	Markup:				Renders as:
	* Bla bla bla			* Bla bla bla
		example code			example code
	->Bla bla bla			  Bla bla bla

where I used the non-existing '->' to get an indendet paragraph - today I 
use ': :' (or more often '::' by mistake). But I guess I'd prefer using
'->' etc instead.

/Christian

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