Re: [Phpwiki-talk] Re: [Phpwiki-talk] 3-single quotes and 5-single quotes broken?

[Jeb B. <je...@oc...>]

I had some ideas on supporting different patterns for wiki, based on
experience I had long ago creating something called the 'patterns
plugin' for a web authoring enviornment I don't use anymore...
http://ocha.net/plugins/patterns/

Anyway, the idea of that code was very similar to wiki, in that you
use simple shorthand markup to write html.  The main difference was
that users had the ability to create their own patterns, based on the
needs of their specific page or website.

I was thinking something similar could be done for wiki, to support
multiple "sets" of patterns, via a popup menu in the EditText page, or
individual patterns via checkboxes.  Of course, the drawback to this
type of flexability is the possibility that pages could be broken by a
change in pattern selection, for example.  There might also be ways to
work around that problem.  Anyway, just a thought I've been meaning to
share, and I might have time to work on in the future...

-jeb

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:14:53AM -0500, Steve Wainstead wrote:
> 
> I'd like to move (again) to a syntax like the NBTSC Wiki, which is in line
> with suggestions by many users over the last two years. Ali went for
> syntax that is a lot like how people do things in plain text elsewhere:
> 
> *bold*
> /italic/
> 
> I think are two examples. Ali's reasoning was the marked up page language
> should be as easy to read/understand as the rendered page.
> 
> Now, the one thing that has troubled me about both the plugin syntax and
> the proposed plain text tags is they are not consistent with the markup to
> date... and inconsistency is not good for the user. As PhpWiki grows in
> features, though, I understand it gets harder to maintain consistency.
> 
> I'd like to see some proposals that are consistent with our current
> syntax, or some way that would be compatible with NBTSC syntax.
> 
> ~swain