5 Apr
2006
5 Apr
'06
1:18 p.m.
Hi Frank,
With some easy things in css I was able to realize
what I want in
HTML. But what do you think about syntax extension of pier to do
such things like
:indented_text.
I found this behavior in another wiki and it helps for readability
of the text.
Sure I can use HTML but writing of such things written above is
much easier.
I tried to keep the syntax as simple as possible. However there were
several requests lately for that kind of things. I don't really know,
how we could implement that the simplest without bloating the wiki-
syntax and while keeping the visitors small that transform the AST
into different output-formats (HTML, Text, Latex, etc).
The best idea I cam up so far is to add some sort of XML-Tags that
can be parsed in a generic fashion, so that extensions can register
their own tags. Something along ...
<pier:indented>
The time is now: <pier:smalltalk>Time now</pier:smalltalk>
</pier:indented>
Would that help? Is something like that of generic interest?
I've been searching in the code for the place of
translation from
*..* and others to HTML and coming down to PRDocumentScanner
scanForToken and see the scannerDefinitionComment on class-side.
The next step to define a new element would be very interesting.
The scanner and parser is automatically generated from the respective
definitions using SmaCC, so you probably don't want to change these
methods manually ;-)
If you only want to do some simple string transformations when
generating HTML you could simply patch the methods from the protocol
#visiting-document in the class PRViewRenderer.
Cheers,
Lukas
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Lukas Renggli
http://www.lukas-renggli.ch