Re: [Phpwiki-talk] standards-compliant lists

[Gary B. <ga...@in...>]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Tara Star wrote:

> Gary Benson wrote:
>
>
> > I've come to the conclusion that the fact that wiki marks up line by line
> > means that:
> >  - block-level markup is hard to code
> >  - the WikiSyntax for block-level markup is contrived and ugly.
> >
> > I'm working on a prototype two-pass markup scheme that will apply
> > block-level markup (h[1-6], p, hr, ul, ol, dl, blockquote, pre and maybe
> > table), leaving lines of text which will have line level markup (i, b, a,
> > etc), It will hopefully eliminate all the problems in
> > MeatBall:SillyTextFormattingRules and, incidentally, produce well-formed
> > XML/XHTML. It will also mean that stuff like ''italics'' will be able to
> > span multiple lines.
>
> I assume you're talking about wiki-lines, and not html-<p>-lines!

For sure. The idea is that if you have something that looks like this:

    Hello I am a bit of a paragraph

    * ''hello I am a big rambly list
      item that splits across
      some lines''

    Hello I am a bit of another paragraph

then it will break that into:

 para: "Hello I am a bit of a paragraph"
 item: "''hello I am a big rambly list item that splits across some lines''
 para: "Hello I am a bit of another paragraph"

and then apply line-level markup to each, hence the ''italics'' will cross
line boundries automagically.

Gary

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