[pmwiki-users] Re: A: markup missing from markup extensions

Daniel Nilsson bengibollen at gmail.com
Sat Oct 22 09:19:33 CDT 2005


John Rankin wrote:
> On Friday, 21 October 2005 1:31 AM, Daniel Nilsson <bengibollen at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I was expecting to get an A: markup as well as an Q: markup in the q&a 
>> markup extension. The A: is somehow processed anyway, but I don't know 
>> why. It doesn't seem to be matched anywhere in extendmarkup.php
>>
>> .danne
>>
> PmWiki's stdmarkup is taking care of it.
> 
> Some history
> ============
> Markup Extensions offers an alternative to PmWiki's Q and A markup.
> At the time of its original writing, PmWiki2 didn't have Q and A.
> Then when it did, the use of >>faq<< caused us terrible problems
> with our wiki to pdf engine (long story; don't go there), so I 
> left the markup extension Q: (which we can handle) and let pmwiki 
> take care of A:
> 
> Hope this helps.

Thanks for the answer. It really did help.

While the Q and A is dealt with in PmWiki core, is there a good reason 
to have the same markup in markup extensions? Couldn't the eventual 
differences be dealt with on css/theme level instead?

.danne





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