Re: [cowiki-dev] Extension to coWiki text formatting

PAUL HANCHETT wrote:

> Thanks for your comments, Sy...
>
> Sy wrote:
>
>>* Numbered lists: One day I'd like to be able to customise the list
>>for, say, all numbers instead of having mixed numbering/lettering.
>>  
>>
> I understand and I'd like that too, but I'm not sure how to implement it.

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/lists.html#h-10.2 shows that a 
fair amount is possible. We would need pipe-syntax in lists as well as 
tables. e.g.

# first
## new level
###formattinginformation| next generation
## again that level

The '([*#]+)(.*)\| (.*)' syntax would allow specification of a new <ol> 
in the output html.

>>* Mention the alias for [[link]] style links as well as ((link)) style.  
>>
> Actually, I prefer [[]] style as that is consistent with other wikis. 

I'm coding for [[link]] and ((link)) both allowed.

> Kai and dtg seem to strongly prefer it.  I'd like to choose one or the 
> other.

Kai? dtg?

>>* Is it really diffitcult to allow nesting of quote <q> tags?  
>>
> It shouldn't be, but what you're really thinking about then is an 
> <indent> operator, right?  I would also like a <box> function where I 
> could display text to be formatted in what looks like today's <code> box.
>
> It also seems to me that we have a lot (too many?) of ways of 
> displaying preformatted text. 
>
>>* <fixed>fixed</fixed> -- Should that be <tt>TrueType</tt> ?  
>>
> I think you are right.

We'll have <tt>, == and <fixed>! And why not?

>>* Tables: I really like the new style of table that was being coded. 
>>I think I understand your proposal, but I need an example.  
>>
> I didn't understand it and I couldn't *read* it at all!  :-) 
>
> ^ Heading 1 ^ Heading 2 ^ <left>Heading 3</left> ^
> | cell A1 | cell A2 | cell A3 |
> | <left>cell B1</left> | <left>cell B2</left>| <left>cell B3</left>|
> | cell C1 | cell C2 | cell C3 |

Very nice, but how to encode rowspan / colspan? Is the underflow always 
thusly intentional? So I think Paul is agreeing to both ^-table and 
<table>-table.

>>Overall, I agree.  In particular, I'm curious about the proposed
>>page-inclusion functionality, the table markup syntax and the
>>administrator-managed languages.
>>    
>>
> So am I.  :-)  I wanted to get a concrete proposal out there to 
> discuss, before we self-destructed over wiki-text issues!

Vive la difference!