1 Recently I've wanted to colour some piece of text on my Ikiwiki page.
2 It seems that Markdown can do it only using HTML tags, so I used
3 `<span class="color">foo bar baz</span>`.
5 However, in my opinion mixing Markdown syntax and HTML tags is rather ugly,
6 so maybe we should create a new color plugin to add more color to Ikiwiki ;)
7 I know that another Wikis have similar plugin, for example
8 [WikiDot](http://www.wikidot.com/).
10 I've noticed that htmlscrubber plugin strips `style` attribute, because of
11 security, so probably we need to use `class` attribute of HTML. But then
12 we have to customize our `local.css` file to add all color we want to use.
13 It's not as easy in usage like color name or definition as plugin argument,
14 but I don't have a better idea right now.
16 What do you think about it? --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
18 > Making a plugin preserve style attributes can be done, it just has to add
19 > them after the sanitize step, which strips them. The general method is
20 > adding placeholders first, and replacing them with the real html later.
22 > The hard thing to me seems to be finding a syntax that is better than a
23 > `<span>`. A preprocessor directive is not really any less ugly than html
24 > tags, though at least it could play nicely with nested markdown: --[[Joey]]
26 > \[[!color red,green """
27 > Xmas-colored markdown here
30 >> I'm glad you like that idea. In my opinion your syntax looks good.
31 >> Out of curiosity, why did you used 2 colors in your example? What is HTML
34 >>> I was thinking one would be foreground, the other background. Don't
35 >>> know if setting the background makes sense or not.
37 >> I can try to create that plugin, if you are too busy now. I'm not Perl
38 >> hacker, but I wrote a lot of Perl scripts in my life and color plugin
39 >> doesn't seem to be very hard task. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
41 >> Yes, it's a good intro plugin, have at it! --[[Joey]]
45 This is a RC1 of my `color` plugin. It works for me well, but all your
46 comments are very welcome. --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
48 > Sure, I have a couple.
50 >> Great! Thank you very much! --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
52 > The preprocess function is passed named parameters. The hack you have of
53 > hardcoding use of `$_[0]` and `$_[2]` can fail at any time.
55 >> But the problem is that arguments of my plugin don't have a name.
56 >> How can I identify them in `params` hash?
58 >> Similar hardcoded method I've found in `img` plugin :) But only one
59 >> argument is not named there (image path).
61 >>> I think I hadn't realized what you were doing there. The order
62 >>> for unnamed parameters can in fact be relied on.
66 >> Maybe I shouldn't use so simple plugin syntax? For following syntax
67 >> I wouldn't have that problem:
69 >> \[[!color fg=white bg=red text="White text on red background"]]
71 > `replace_preserved_style` is passed a single parameter, so its prototype
72 > should be `($)`, not `(@)`. Ditt `preserve_style`, it should have
75 >> OK, it will be fixed.
77 > The sanitize hook is always passed `$params{content}`, so there should be
78 > no reason to check that it exists. Also, it shouldn't be done in a
79 > sanitize hook, since html sanitization could run _after_ that santize
80 > hook. It should use a format hook.
82 >> Probably you're right. It was rather paranoid checking ;) Thanks for
85 > The preprocess hook needs to call `IkiWiki::preprocess` on the content
86 > passed into it if you want to support nesting other preprocessor
87 > directives inside the color directive. See `preprocess_toggleable` in the
88 > toggle plugin, for example.
90 > I'm not a big fan of the dummy text `COLORS { ... } SROLOC;TEXT { ... TXET }`
91 > The method used by toggle of using two real `<div>`s seems slightly
94 >> I don't like that too, but I didn't have better idea :) Thank you for
95 >> the hint! I'll take a look at `toggle` plugin.
99 And here is RC2 of that plugin. I've changed a plugin syntax, because the old
100 seems to be too enigmatic and it was hard to me to handle unnamed parameters
101 in not hardcoded way. I hope that my changes are acceptable for you.
102 Of course, I'm open for discussion or exchange of ideas :) --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
104 > One question, why the 2px padding for span.color? --[[Joey]]
106 >> Sorry for a long silence, but I had Internet free summer holiday :)
107 >> I did that, because backgrounded text without any padding looks
108 >> strange for me ;) You can remove it if you don't like that padding.
109 >> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
111 >>> Joey, will you add that plugin to Ikiwiki 2.61? :) --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
113 >>>> I also had a long net-free summer holiday. :-) The [[patch]] is
114 >>>> ready for integration (made a few minor changes). Is this GPL 2?
117 >>>>> No problem. I guessed it, because I've not seen your commits
118 >>>>> at [[RecentChanges]] page in last days and I subscribe your
119 >>>>> [blog](http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/vacation/) :D
120 >>>>> It's GPL-2+ like your Ikiwiki and the most external plugins.
121 >>>>> --[[Paweł|ptecza]]
123 --- /dev/null 2008-06-21 02:02:15.000000000 +0200
124 +++ color.pm 2008-07-27 14:58:12.000000000 +0200
127 +# Ikiwiki text colouring plugin
128 +# Paweł‚ Tęcza <ptecza@net.icm.edu.pl>
129 +package IkiWiki::Plugin::color;
136 + hook(type => "preprocess", id => "color", call => \&preprocess);
137 + hook(type => "format", id => "color", call => \&format);
140 +sub preserve_style ($$$) { #{{{
141 + my $foreground = shift;
142 + my $background = shift;
145 + $foreground = defined $foreground ? lc($foreground) : '';
146 + $background = defined $background ? lc($background) : '';
147 + $text = '' unless (defined $text);
149 + # Validate colors. Only color name or color code are valid.
150 + $foreground = '' unless ($foreground &&
151 + ($foreground =~ /^[a-z]+$/ || $foreground =~ /^#[0-9a-f]{3,6}$/));
152 + $background = '' unless ($background &&
153 + ($background =~ /^[a-z]+$/ || $background =~ /^#[0-9a-f]{3,6}$/));
155 + my $preserved = '';
156 + $preserved .= '<span class="color">';
157 + $preserved .= 'color: '.$foreground if ($foreground);
158 + $preserved .= '; ' if ($foreground && $background);
159 + $preserved .= 'background-color: '.$background if ($background);
160 + $preserved .= '</span>';
161 + $preserved .= '<span class="colorend">'.$text.'</span>';
167 +sub replace_preserved_style ($) { #{{{
168 + my $content = shift;
170 + $content =~ s!<span class="color">((color: ([a-z]+|\#[0-9a-f]{3,6})?)?((; )?(background-color: ([a-z]+|\#[0-9a-f]{3,6})?)?)?)</span>!<span class="color" style="$1">!g;
171 + $content =~ s!<span class="colorend">!!g;
176 +sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
179 + # Preprocess the text to expand any preprocessor directives
180 + # embedded inside it.
181 + $params{text} = IkiWiki::preprocess($params{page}, $params{destpage},
182 + IkiWiki::filter($params{page}, $params{destpage}, $params{text}));
184 + return preserve_style($params{foreground}, $params{background}, $params{text});
187 +sub format (@) { #{{{
190 + $params{content} = replace_preserved_style($params{content});
191 + return $params{content};
195 --- /dev/null 2008-06-21 02:02:15.000000000 +0200
196 +++ color.mdwn 2008-07-27 15:04:42.000000000 +0200
198 +\[[!template id=plugin name=color core=0 author="[[ptecza]]"]]
200 +This plugin can be used to color a piece of text on a page.
201 +It can be used to set the foreground and/or background color of the text.
203 +You can use a color name (e.g. `white`) or HTML code (e.g. `#ffffff`)
206 +Below are a few examples:
208 + \[[!color foreground=white background=#ff0000 text="White text on red background"]]
210 +In the above example, the foreground color is defined as a word, while the background color is defined as a HTML
213 + \[[!color foreground=white text="White text on default color background"]]
215 +The background color is missing, so the text is displayed on default background.
217 + \[[!color background=#ff0000 text="Default color text on red background"]]
219 +The foreground is missing, so the text has the default foreground color.
220 --- style.css-orig 2008-07-27 15:12:39.000000000 +0200
221 +++ style.css 2008-07-27 15:15:06.000000000 +0200
224 color: black !important;