Re: [Phpwiki-talk] misc pending patches / restructuring

[Neil B. <ne...@cs...>]

On Monday October 9, sw...@wc... wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Arno Hollosi wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Nested DefinitionLists by Neil Brown:
> > Looks ok.
> > Note: this still relies on tabs. I think we should get rid of tabs ASAP.
> 
> When I added tabless syntax, I skipped term/defs because there was no
> clear solution, and nobody uses them (even on c2.com, and in regular HTML
> pages). Ward probably coded them in in 1995 when people were still
> exploring HTML and might have used them. Anyhow, I will take a look at
> that too tonight. There should be a simple syntactic solution.

Gee.. I use defintion lists all the time!!!  Must just be the way my
brain works.

The meatball wiki
  (  http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TextFormattingRules ) 
uses:

   Term with indented definition: [without a blank line between term and definition] 
   
   ;Term:Definition (indented)
   ;;Term (indented):Definition (indented two levels)
   ;;;Term (indented twice):Definition (indented to third level)
   
   ...which looks like: 
   
   Term
         Definition (indented) 
         Term (indented)
               Definition (indented two levels) 
               Term (indented twice)
                     Definition (indented to third level) 

This looks like a reasonable syntax and is in-line with the *** and
### syntaxes for other nested  lists.

>  
> > SearchType patch by Neil Brown:
> > The actual patch is ok. If a search box should be included in the default 
> > browse.html should be discussed.

I'm quite happy with leave browse.html alone.  I just included it in the
patch to demonstrate how I would use the extra functionality.

NeilBrown