Hello, Note: This mail was edited within a quite long time. Please don't be confused if the last part superseeds everything above ;-)
on Sonntag, 14. Oktober 2007, Rajko M. wrote: > The class="minutes" doesn't break line when is too long. Known problem, but unfortunately it isn't easy fixable :-( The wiki doesn't allow <pre class=...>, therefore <div> has to be used. However, I'm a bit confused. I just read the mediawiki code (includes/Sanitizer.php, 10.3 package) and it allows class= for <pre>. I also confirmed it by testing on a local installation. OTOH, class= and style= are stripped from the <pre> tag in the openSUSE wiki, see http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Sandbox#pre_test -> needs to be clarified by a wiki admin. Basically, the <div class="minutes"> uses white-space:pre, which is a <pre> with sans-serif (instead of fixed) font. AFAIK, there's no way to tell CSS "keep line breaks and formatting, but break overlong lines" - at least none that is supported by all common browsers. Possible workarounds and fixes are: - prefix every log line with <br /> (and change the minutes class - in this case it must not behave like <pre>) Advantage: compatible with all browsers Disadvantage: all lines need to be prefixed with <br /> (can be don with sed) - add linebreaks manually (I sometimes did that) Disadvantage: lots of work, and does not match every screen layout - use white-space:pre-wrap - but this is new in CSS 2.1 and not supported by all browsers out there. [1] Disadvantage: If a browser doesn't support it, the line breaks will be lost, which makes the minutes unreadable. - use some "invalid" CSS hacks for older browsers ([2], untested) The best solution would be to fix the wiki to allow <pre class=...>. Reason: we could define a class for <pre> with sans-serif font and white-space:pre-wrap, which automatically includes a nice fallback to normal <pre> behaviour for older browsers (they would just ignore pre-wrap and display long lines). The CSS code for div.minutes (currently used) is: div.minutes { margin: 0 0 1em 1em; padding: 0 .5em; color: #000; background: #f0f0f4; border: 1px solid #669900; white-space: pre; } pre.minutes would need this code: pre.minutes { margin: 0 0 1em 1em; padding: 0 .5em; color: #000; background: #f0f0f4; border: 1px solid #669900; /* all as in div.minutes */ font:sans-serif; /* or whatever is the default font in the wiki */ word-wrap:pre-wrap; } I don't know how much work is needed on the mediawiki side. However, I hope it isn't too difficult because it works on my local installation ;-) Unfortunately, even this solution has a disadvantage: Mediawiki does not expand wiki markup inside <pre> and does not allow HTML code, so it will be impossible to have a link etc. inside <pre>. This is a good idea for "normal" <pre> usecases, but bad for meeting minutes. Summary: Every solution sucks. But there are ways that suck less ;-) Maybe we have to write a plugin supporting a <minutes> tag. Text inside this tag should allow wiki markup and be put into a <pre class='minutes'>. Creating such a special tag shouldn't be too hard. Thanks to Google, I found a nice explanation: http://planetozh.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-add-a-custom-function-to-mediawiki/ (some time later) Out of curiosity, I tried writing the plugin. It turned out to be quite easy, the only difficult part was to find out that I had to use the recursiveTagParse function to parse wiki tags... I have attached the proof-of-concept plugin file. To test/use it, simply save it in the extensions/ directory and add include("extensions/minutesTag.php"); to your LocalSettings.php. In case the admins find my extension usable, I can do some finetuning on it (for example nl2br instead of using <pre> to make the linebreak of long lines work in every browser). Regards, Christian Boltz [1] http://cthedot.de/xbrowsertest/ws.html [2] http://ausreden.sprachwerker.de/2007/02/28/pre-mit-zeilenumbruch-in-wordpress-nutzen/ -- > P.S.: Ich habe soeben mutt über Bord geworfen und bin reumütig zu > evolution zurückgekehrt. *Waaahhhhh* Ein Abtruenniger!!! Was is los??? [> Ratti und David Haller in suse-linux]
minutesTag.php
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