[pmwiki-users] About {$:var} text-variables
Patrick R. Michaud
pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Sep 6 13:52:52 CDT 2006
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:20:48AM +0200, Roman wrote:
> On 9/6/06, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> > I *really* like the idea that the {$:var} stuff uses
> >
> > Name: Patrick
> > Version: 39
> > State: Texas
>
> I like this simple syntax as well but some more explicit syntax would
> be also desirable. I think we can expect quite common request to use
> text variables definitions together with tables because of vertical
> alignment of values or because of better styling. I doubt that this
> simple syntax would work with tables, e.g.
>
> ||class=sometableclass
> ||Name: ||Patrick ||
> ||Version: ||39 ||
> ||State: ||Texas ||
Oooh, I like it. But even if it's not a PmWiki default it will
be a customizable option. Actually, individual sites will be
able to choose whatever syntax(es) they wish.
> One of J.Meiers's suggestions tries to solve this request. But there
> could be other ways, e.g. separate variable definition from its
> appearance. In this case, text variable definition should not appear
> in the HTML output:
>
> (:some variable definition beginning:)
> Name: Patrick
> Version: 39
> State: Texas
> (:some variable definition end:)
We already have the capability to define values that aren't displayed... :-)
(:if false:)
Name: Patrick
Version: 39
State: Texas
(:ifend:)
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