Hi

Point (2):
@@background-color:red;accomplish this@@

-- but might be easier to create a css style for the task (in a stylesheet):
.highlight {
     background-color:red;
}
-- then:
@@.highlight accomplish this@@

regards

On Saturday, 16 January 2016 03:47:35 UTC+2, Scott Simmons (Secret-HQ) 
wrote:
>
> As I've begun using TiddlyWiki5 for day-to-day operations, it strikes me 
> there are three quirks of its wikitext that may be worth revisiting:
>
>    1. 
> *There's no wikitext for an image wrapped in a link. *Jeremy addressed 
>    this in an earlier thread 
>    <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/DktUwUnG7iE/P3K4admtEAAJ>, 
>    but it does seem like a glaring omission in TW's wikitext.
>    My personal preference is for 
>    [img[path/to/image.jpg]link[TiddlerTitle]] / 
>    [img[{{ImageTiddler}}]ext[URL]] .
>    In the absence of such a solution, I've been eschewing wikitext for 
>    images *and* links and filling my tiddlers with HTML — which sort of 
>    defeats the purpose of wikitext, to my way of thinking.
>    
>    2. *There's no wikitext for highlighting (adding a background-color to 
>    text).*
>    TiddlyWiki Classic used @@a couple of 'at' symbols@@ to accomplish this
>    .
>    In its absence, I've been using <span>s — which is fine, but once 
>    again, typing out all that HTML feels like I'm not taking advantage of 
>    wikitext.
>    
>    3. *Using three hyphens (---) to denote an <HR> means you can't put an 
>    m-dash on its own line.*
>    Which may not be a problem for anyone else, but I tend to put an 
>    m-dash on its own line a fair bit and find myself resorting to keyboard 
>    shortcuts when it seems like wikitext should do.
>    If it took *FOUR* hyphens to indicate an <HR>, three would be reserved 
>    for an m-dash, and we wouldn't have this conflict.
>
>

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