Markdown does indeed preserve indentation, because code blocks are wrapped in <pre> tags. Syntax hilighting is another matter...
I used to really like Markdown, because it's very readable. Unfortunately, (I feel) this comes at a price: loss of flexibility. While adding support to a bbCode parsing engine for '[php]...[/php]' tags is easy, adding stuff to markdown is difficult. I find it particularly annoying that there's no way to specify css classes for elements, for example. I've heard people rave about Flay, though I've never used it myself. WikiCode looks horribly complicated, but I'm sure it isn't really. For an example of one way of handling code snippets in articles, download the code for the bakery. It's far from perfect, but it has its good points! On Jan 31, 12:12 pm, "dr. Hannibal Lecter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi grigri, > > actually, that might halp me :-) > > I must agree with you on WYSIWYG, they mostly turn out to be > disappointments. WYMeditor seems promising, but it is still unusable > in "real life". > > Markup format is indeed a very good suggestion, very tempting. But I'm > not sure if that will solve my problems. How will Markdown handle the > code snippets exactly? How to preserve indentation etc.. is it a built > in feature or do I need to hack it? > > Thanks for a prompt reply! > > > If the users on your website that use the article submission are > > expected to add code snippets, it's probably a given that they are > > coders of some form or another, so getting them to use some markup > > format shouldn't be too hard. bbCode, Flay, Markdown, WikiCode, ... > > there's a lot out there, and they all work fine. > > > If you deem this as too "old-school" then write an ajax-based auto- > > preview or something like that. There's always room for more 2.0 > > > Like I said, this probably won't help you if you're determined to use > > wysiwyg, but it's my £0.0100332 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
