On 2/15/07, Patrick R. Michaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00887, Feral has > proposed a very interesting markup for nested divs that > I'm considering and could use some comments/feedback. > > Currently we have several div markups available: > > (:div class='xyz':)...(:div:) basic div > (:div1 class='xyz':)...(:div1:) div that allows nesting > >>xyz<< div with 'xyz' wikistyle applied > > The current problem is that there's not a convenient way to > associated wikistyles with nested divs. My original thought > had been to use multiple angle brackets to indicate nesting levels, > so that >>><<< corresponds to a (:div1:), >>>><<<< is a (:div2:), etc. > Thus the markup on the left below would be equivalent to the items > on the right: > > >>xyz<< (:div:)%xyz div% > Some text Some text > >>>abc<<< (:div1:)%abc div% > A nested div A nested div > >>><<< (:div1end:) > Back to outer div Back to outer div > >><< (:divend:) > > PITS:00887 proposes a somewhat different (and possibly clearer) > markup, by prefacing the >><< with a div number. Thus instead > of >>><<<, >>>><<<<, >>>>><<<<<, we would use 1>><<, 2>><<, 3>><<, > etc. Then the above would be: > > >>xyz<< > Some text > 1>>abc<< > A nested div > 1>><< > Back to outer div > >><< > > I kind of like this -- it eliminates the need to count angle > brackets, and makes the relationship between 1>>...<< and > (:div1:) more explicit. > > On the downside, most other things involving "levels" in PmWiki > use repetitions of the same character, as in headings (!!, !!!, !!!!), > lists (*, **, ***), etc. So this might be a little inconsistent. > > Another option would be to put div level markers on the inside > of the angle brackets, thus >>1 ...<<, >>2 ...<<, etc. to > correspond to (:div1:), (:div2:), etc. > > Comments? >
>>xyz<< Some text >>1 abc<< A nested div >>1<< Back to outer div >><< seem more consistent to me. Dom _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
