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]]