[Pmwiki-users] Markup...

[Christian Ridderström]

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

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 04:52:01PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > Bah... I'm sorry, when I wrote '::' I really should have written ': :'. 
> > I'll send that mail again (modified).
> 
> Even so, I think my comments still stand.  For consistency's sake I'd 
> prefer to leave ': :' to produce definition lists as it does now,

Yes, I've come around to your point now. Because we have

	:term:description

then
	: :description

should become a definition item as well (with a term consisting of a ' ').

> and define a new markup such as '->' to produce indented text using <div>s.  

I agree... is there anyone who doesn't?

Note: IIRC, John's implementation uses '>' to right justify the entire 
paragraph, which I don't like.

> Of course, a WikiAdministrator who really wanted ': :' to produce
> <div>s instead of <dl>s could then create a $DoubleBrackets entry to 
> convert ': :' to '->'.

As usual ;-)

/Christian

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