[Phpwiki-talk] Re: Wiki RFC Discussion

[Franck M. <fr...@so...>]

All these changes seem fine by me...

Please use the comments area on the page, to record your comments 
regarding the syntax.
http://tikiwiki.org/tiki-index.php?page=RFCWiki

I think we are not worried if the syntax breaks the current tiki, as the 
tiki group is looking for establishing a Wiki API.

We will try to ensure we can implement the new syntax while providing 
backward compatibility.

I suggest

Philippe Cloutier wrote:

> electron wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>> 2.22. Adding Hidden Details in Lists An expandable area allows you to 
>> display the major items in your list by
>> default. Every item is still there, but it needs to be expanded to 
>> become
>> visible. An expandable area is created by adding a minus (-) 
>> character after
>> the star (*) characters.
>> Example: *This is a Level 1 item. *This Level 1 item has Hidden 
>> Details. Click the Plus [+] to open it. **-This is a Level 2 item. 
>> Clicking the Minus [-] will close it. **This Level 2 item did not 
>> need the minus character. *Back to Level 1.
>> Expandable areas work with Bulleted and Numbered lists.
>> ---
>>
>> This can cause some really strange behaviors and puzzled users. 
>> ("Where did
>> my text go?!!") Possibly require the previous line has a +, such as:
>>
>> Example: *This is a Level 1 item. *+This Level 1 item has Hidden 
>> Details. Click the Plus [+] to open it. **-This is a Level 2 item. 
>> Clicking the Minus [-] will close it. **This Level 2 item did not 
>> need the minus character. *Back to Level 1.
>> Maybe that was an omission?
>>
>>  
>>
> I don't really understand the objection, as why is *+ on second line? 
> Obviously users can be puzzled a bit at first time. We use it (and 
> also for titles) in TikiWiki documentation though, and it's pretty 
> useful.
>
I think it is an omission....

>>
> I'm posting this to Tiki devel-list.
> A comment on syntax I already received from a Tiki admin was that 
> using __ for bold instead of underlining (currently ===) was strange. 
> This makes sense to me at first glance. Luis Argerich first 
> implemented that syntax, I think it would be interesting to get his 
> comments on those changes.
>
> Philippe Cloutier


I suggest

**bold** This is used in e-mails a lot...

__underlining__  This one does not provide backward compaqtibility but 
seems more logical

About XML, my idea is that if an application needs to differentiate from 
a plain text document to a wiki document, then the word wiki must be 
start on the first character of the first line. No others words are 
permitted on the line...
In a wiki application this feature is unlikely to be used, but in an 
e-mail document it could be useful...

I don't think wiki documents should have a version number.

Cheers

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