Re: [Phpwiki-talk] ImageAlignment

[Adam S. <ad...@pe...>]

CC'd back to the list cause it looked like a mistake that it wasn't ...

> I considered using these (and l|r) but went for left|right for ease 
> of understanding (and remembering) on the part of the user. Also < 
> and > are parsed for and return an error earlier in stdlib.php (I 
> think).

Yeah, it's hard to decide which is the most "wiki way".
 
> Which brings up a question. This new syntax you guys are working on - 
> will it play nicely alongside the current syntax? Converting to/from 
> during import/export/upgrades may or may not be difficult, but surely 
> this obstacle is dwarfed by the retraining of the existing user-base, 
> many of whom enjoy (!) using wiki *because* they are familiar with 
> the simple syntax? It's hard enough getting folks to edit wiki, but 
> once they do, asking them to learn a new system is, in some cases, 
> not practical.

This I can't answer as I'm not the one working on it.  If I remember
right the decision was that the old markup was sub-optimal and that the
new markup should be implemented exclusively.

> Oh yes - that was another question that's been lurking in the back of 
> my mind. Some of my history pages are getting pretty long and anchors 
> would be very useful.

Yep.  Moin has a TableOfContents macro that does some of what I'd like
to see, but it has some pretty serious limitations as well.
 
> On BurleyGreen.com most of the navigation on the left is an 
> IncludePage. This got me thinking: would be possible to create a 
> system which would allow content from a single page to be placed in 
> two or more locations in the template?
> 
> Say in the browse.html file you had the following:
> 
> <div class="nav"><?plugin Includepage section="Nav" ?></div>
> <div class="main">$content</div>
> <div class="sidebar"><?plugin Includepage section="SideBar" ?></div>
> 
> And in the wiki-text you could put something like:
> ===========
> Welcome to my phpwiki-powered web site...
> 
> ! Nav
> HomePage%%%
> SomePage%%%
> OtherPage
> 
> ! SideBar
> [http://.../image.jpg]%%%
> Caption
> ===========
> 
> You can *nearly* do this with the existing IncludePage plugin, but 
> the sidebar stuff will be duplicated at the bottom of the page. Can 
> anyone point out a way to suppress this content - with or without 
> hacking the source?

Why not just use multiple pages eg. SideBar, NavBar, TopBar etc?  That
seems more flexible to me anyway?

As for your question I believe there is an option to pass to the
IncludePage plugin to only include "sections" which are defined by
"----" within the page.

Adam.