Vincent Massol wrote: > On Aug 11, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote: >>> Q: Is the macro name appropriate? Do you know of a better one? >> Point taken: formula is better than equation. Actually, initially it >> was >> named "formula", but I didn't like it that much. Anyway, the community >> has spoken. >> >> Point not taken: rendering is the right name IMO. Before xwiki- >> rendering >> as a syntax converter, rendering has a widely accepted sense as >> generating raster graphics. From Wikipedia: "Rendering is the >> process of >> generating an image from a model, by means of computer programs". This >> is what the module does, and the fact that we have another thing >> called >> "rendering" doesn't mean that we must invent new names for something >> standard. > > I'd agree to use rendering but *only* if: > > * It's integrated inside the xwiki-rendering module > * It's implemented as a XWiki Parser and Renderer (and thus we > introduce a syntax for it) > > I think it could fit well in the xwiki-rendering module. We'll need to > adjust a few things (since it would be the first renderer to generate > binary data) but that's a good thing. > > WDYT?
Well, it doesn't actually do parsing or rendering. The code is really small, and it just forwards the text to a service, which returns the binary blob. But I don't understand why do you insist on this conflict between image rendering and text rendering? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
