Recently I've wanted to colour some piece of text on my Ikiwiki page.
It seems that Markdown can do it only using HTML tags, so I used
<span class="color">foo bar baz</span>.
However, in my opinion mixing Markdown syntax and HTML tags is rather ugly,
so maybe we should create a new color plugin to add more color to Ikiwiki ;)
I know that another Wikis have similar plugin, for example
WikiDot.
I've noticed that htmlscrubber plugin strips style attribute, because of
security, so probably we need to use class attribute of HTML. But then
we have to customize our local.css file to add all color we want to use.
It's not as easy in usage like color name or definition as plugin argument,
but I don't have a better idea right now.
What do you think about it? --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
Making a plugin preserve style attributes can be done, it just has to add
them after the sanitize step, which strips them. The general method is
adding placeholders first, and replacing them with the real html later.
The hard thing to me seems to be finding a syntax that is better than a
<span>. A preprocessor directive is not really any less ugly than html
tags, though at least it could play nicely with nested markdown: --[[Joey]]
[[color red,green """
Xmas-colored markdown here
"""]]
I'm glad you like that idea. In my opinion your syntax looks good.
Out of curiosity, why did you used 2 colors in your example? What is HTML
result for it? ;)
I was thinking one would be foreground, the other background. Don't
know if setting the background makes sense or not.
I can try to create that plugin, if you are too busy now. I'm not Perl
hacker, but I wrote a lot of Perl scripts in my life and color plugin
doesn't seem to be very hard task. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
Yes, it's a good intro plugin, have at it! --[[Joey]]
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