[pmwiki-users] Converting WikiStyle shortcuts to CSS classes

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Mon Sep 12 09:29:56 CDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 09:32:11AM -0400, Russell Bailey wrote:
> What I'm doing with this particular extension is rendering WikiStyle 
> shortcuts (either defined directly in $WikiStyle or put there with 
> define= markup) to CSS classes,  then applying the classes to the text.  
> So,  from my sandbox:
> 
> %red% red %%
> 
> becomes
> 
> <span class='wikistyle_red'>
> red
> </span>
> 
> instead of
> 
> <span style='color:red;'>
> red
> </span>
> 
> This means that when data is saved from the rich text editor,  PmWiki 
> can tell which spans had which WikiStyles,  making things more intuitive 
> for the end user.

...I haven't quite figured out how you'll be able to handle things like

   %center font-style:italic%

or

   %background-color=#ccccff right%

Are you creating new classes for each of these?

Pm




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