[Pmwiki-users] Re: Image alt text
John Rankin
john.rankin
Wed May 19 15:24:30 CDT 2004
On Thursday, 20 May 2004 1:43 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
>Nils Knappmeier <nk <at> knappi.org> writes:
>> I just had the following idea: Usually, what you see on an image does
>> not depend on where you put the image. Maybe, one should be able to
>> specify the alt-text when uploading the picture.
>
>...except that many pages may refer to images that aren't uploaded,
>and we'd still need a way to specify alt-text for those. I'd much
>prefer to have an alt-text solution that works more generally over
>one that only works for uploads.
>
>And although the concept of a separate page containing an alt-text
>index could also work, it would bug me as an author to have to go
>put my alt-text in a page separate from where it's going to be
>displayed. Plus, some images may need different alt-text depending
>on the context of where they are being displayed.
>
>Pm
And I'd still like to see the same approach for image alt text,
acronyms, abbreviations and similar. Which brings me to...
Sometimes people are writing
[a bit of jargon|with an explanation]
which while it's not really a correct use of <acronym>, is very
convenient. (I think <span title='...'> is the correct form.)
This of course doesn't work if one writes
a bit of jargon[with an explanation]
Ideally the markup needs to support:
image alt text
acronyms
abbreviations
phrases
(Since some people may not know the difference between an acronym
and an abbreviation, it might be safest to use only the <abbr> tag.)
So how about:
[item=text string] or
[item==text string]
where item is Attach:, image reference, acronym, abbreviation,
wikiword, free link, or just a string of text.
Alternatively, use
item[text string] or
item<text string>
for all but the last one, which could be done with a style:
%%title=text string%item%%
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JR
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John Rankin
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