[pmwiki-users] Re: <div> markup suggestions...?

[dan mcmullen]

hello all!

newbie alert.  i'm just beginning to use PmWiki for some volunteer work teaching
computers to 7th graders.  i'm hoping to get them engaged in some collective, multimedia
storytelling using PmWiki as the infrastructure.  i will also be using it to build user
maintained web sites.  please forgive any obvious ?s and direct me to online docs
whenever possible.

i'm interested in the <div> issue because i want the kids to use styled boxes to
distinguish 'voices' in wiki comments and discussion.  for now, "\\\" will work to
effect pseudo-paragraph breaks, but a nice, compact way to have a box that extends
across many elements would be good.  this could be a *very* commonly used technique.

would it be possible to extend the existing WikiStyles syntax to support this?  "%block
define=foo%" currently provide a block semantic that works for paragraphs, etc.  perhaps
"%box define=foo%" could mean that the styles extends to the next "%%".  (could this
nest?)  using a box style would work the same way as other WikiStyles, minimizing
syntactic overload.

also, will the "(:div:)" syntax work with existing WikiStyles - e.g. "(:div:) %foo% ..."?

on a different note: is there a tweek that would make changing GroupAttributes possible
only with an administrator password, even if there is an 'attr' password for the group?
  i'd like the kids to be able to set edit passwords for their pages in our group, but
not change the passwords for the group itself.  (this is not a big deal.)

many thanks to Patrick and the community for all the great work on PmWiki!

enjoy!
/dan