On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:46 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:05 PM, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>> Some open issues/questions:
>>>
>>> 1) I think we need a syntax for escaping a block of text. I'd propose
>>> using {{{whatever here}}} (same as creole and confluence). We could
>>> do
>>
>> Does not seems very natural as text escaping, why not ""some tex"" ?
>
> rationale: creole does it like this.
> http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-NowikiPreformatted
I did not though of multiline, in this context yes "" don't show if
it's opened or closed so it's not a good idea.
>
> In your proposition above I can't see if you're writing single quotes,
> double quotes or a mixtures, sounds an issue :)
>
> Anyway so it means you think we need a syntax too right?
Yes definitely.
>
>>> it with a macro but I don't know how we could implement it easily...
>>> 2) Do we want double curly braces for macros or simple ones:
>>> {{macro/}} or {macro/}. If we use simple ones then it won't be easy
>>> to
>>> enter { and } chars in a text (they would need to be escaped) and
>>> since we've decided to have double chars for items ( **, --, ~~, etc)
>>> we might as well do that for macros.
>>
>> +1
>>
>>> 3) Do we want to support images in links. For example:
>>> [[image:someimage.png]]? We already support URIs in links, such as
>>
>> Sounds like a good idea to me. +1 if it's not too much work.
>>
>>> mailto: so maybe it wouldn't be too hard to support images too I
>>> guess. Or do we want only the Image macro? A related question is do
>>> we
>>> support http images (http://.../someimage.png) inside links and as an
>>> inline element directly in the text?
>>> 4) Tables: do we keep the table macro or do we want a wiki syntax for
>>> tables.
>>
>> +1 for a wiki syntax.
>
> The only downside is that the more changes we add the more difficult
> it'll be for users to migrate their content. We can probably write
> some migration scripts for moving links [...] to [[....]], same for
> bold, etc. Might be harder to tables.
> Personally I'm a bit -0 for a wiki syntax but I'm not sure.
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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