[pmwiki-users] custom markups and like breaks

[V.Krishn]

> > How should a local end-of-line markup handle line breaks?
> >
> > I have an experimental local markup where
> >
> > * an item::its continuation
> >
> > :a term:its definition::and its continuation
> >
> > produce respectively
> >
> > <ul><li><p>an item</p><p>its continuation</p></li></ul>
> >
> > <dl><dt>a term</dt><dd>its definition></dd><dd>and its
> > continuation</dd></dl>

This would be really useful if one wants to have more than one 'definition' to 
a 'term'.
Come to think of it how about more than one 'term' to a single definition.
eg.
: term one::term two:its definition

> >
> > This seems to be working. Local css rules adjust the
> > inter-paragraph space. But it seems more natural to write
> >
> > * an item::
> > its continuation
> >
> > :a term:its definition::
> >
> > and its continuation
> >
> > I can't figure out how to make this work.
> >
> > It ought to be 'obvious when you know how'. Any suggestions?
>
> How about just eliminating any return after a double colon?
>
>     Markup ('::$', '<\\$', "/::\n/", '::');
>
> Pm
Thanks for both the issue and the solution. It has given me another idea.
:-)
V.Krishn