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[textile] Defintion lists
It occurred to me today, while needing to create a def list in an article I’m drafting, that MediaWiki does these super easy. Since the syntax is the same in MediaWiki for ordered and unordered lists as it is in Textile, I was wondering if it would be possible to added def lists to Textile too.
MediaWiki uses a semi-colon (;) to create the dt, and a colon (:) to create each following dd. Everything else is add just like ordered/unordered lists are.
Is this possible?
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Re: [textile] Defintion lists
I’d love <dl>s to be part of Textile. Been asked a few times already and the official answer seems to kind of fizzle out by threads’ end.
I assumed Textile was GPL or compatible and, as such, could be maintained by someone else, but I’ve never really looked into whether Dean or Zem owns it and/or has the desire/motiviation to update it. Sure would be nice to have, even though the ; and : thing deviates from normal Textile Syntax. Does the MW syntax allow classes and IDs to be added?
Last edited by Bloke (2008-11-16 14:22:34)
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Re: [textile] Defintion lists
I knew I didn’t look hard enough for previous threads. :/
MW does not allow selectors on it’s syntax, but I would imagine a Textile implementation might take this into account.
I didn’t realize there was a “normal” syntax to follow, I was just showing an example — a very easy to use example — that seems to work elsewhere and follows the same model for ordered and unordered lists; asterisks for ULs, octothorpes for OLs…and semicolons/colons for DL’s. :)
Last edited by Destry (2008-11-16 15:06:53)
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Destry wrote:
I didn’t realize there was a “normal” syntax to follow
You’re right, there isn’t. I was being a pleb and thinking in terms of, like:
h1(someclass). My Headingand had forgotten about the other * and # syntax for lists. Ignore me, it’s better that way :-)
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To add to the confusion (at least mine): We have a valid Textile syntax for adding class and id attributes to lists:
*(class#id) foo
* bar
#(class#idtoo) foo
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wet wrote:
We have a valid Textile syntax for adding
classandidattributes to lists
Oh yeah, I’d almost forgotten. In that case:
;(class#id) foo
: bar1
: bar2
: bar3
...makes perfect sense to me. Does the semicolon/colon thing impact any other Textile processing? If not, can something like that be added and, if so, what needs to be done to make it happen?
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@wet: Right!
@Bloke and the gang: That’s exactly what I was getting at. Wouldn’ that be nice, and simple?
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