> One last thought on (preferably modeless) WYSIWYG and wiki > compatability. I imagine this has already been discussed, but it > seems most of the payoff for keeping wiki markup is that people like > to write in it, especially for certain tasks such as tiddlers with > macros and tiddlers that do other things than store someone's > hyperprose. It might simplify design if there were an option to > create a wiki markup tiddler or a WYSIWYG tiddler at the outset and > just keep them separate. I may be wrong, but I don't think there are > many if any cases where someone would need to go from wysiwyg to wiki > markup and would not know which type of tiddler to create at the time > of creation. Then the (optional) translation can just be a > unidirectional wiki==> wysiwyg for people like me who would like to > get everything into html and stay there rather than having to create a > bidirectional translation. Two markup engines, with a possible one- > way, irreversible translation of wiki to WYSIWIG would seem to be an > easier problem than fully bidirectional, transparent formatting. Even > if bidirectional formatting remained the goal, a unidirectional > translation to WYSIWYG with the option to remain in wiki markup of > course reserved would be a solid fist step toward doing that, and you > could see if it was "good enough." A little inelegant, but might give > everyone what they want with less work.
That's pretty much how TiddlyWiki5 works: tiddlers are either wikitext or html. The HTML can include special annotations for macros and links. Internally, the wikitext is rendered into pretty much the same HTML. Ultimately, though, I found that I really don't like the idea of having two classes of content, with inevitable differences in behaviour and capability. Best wishes Jeremy -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] http://www.tiddlywiki.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev?hl=en.
