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 >> Maybe I shouldn't use so simple plugin syntax? For following syntax
62 >> I wouldn't have that problem:
64 >> \[[!color fg=white bg=red text="White text on red background"]]
66 > `replace_preserved_style` is passed a single parameter, so its prototype
67 > should be `($)`, not `(@)`. Ditt `preserve_style`, it should have
70 >> OK, it will be fixed.
72 > The sanitize hook is always passed `$params{content}`, so there should be
73 > no reason to check that it exists. Also, it shouldn't be done in a
74 > sanitize hook, since html sanitization could run _after_ that santize
75 > hook. It should use a format hook.
77 >> Probably you're right. It was rather paranoid checking ;) Thanks for
80 > The preprocess hook needs to call `IkiWiki::preprocess` on the content
81 > passed into it if you want to support nesting other preprocessor
82 > directives inside the color directive. See `preprocess_toggleable` in the
83 > toggle plugin, for example.
85 > I'm not a big fan of the dummy text `COLORS { ... } SROLOC;TEXT { ... TXET }`
86 > The method used by toggle of using two real `<div>`s seems slightly
89 >> I don't like that too, but I didn't have better idea :) Thank you for
90 >> the hint! I'll take a look at `toggle` plugin.
92 --- /dev/null 2008-07-24 09:38:19.000000000 +0200
93 +++ color.pm 2008-07-25 14:43:15.000000000 +0200
96 +# Ikiwiki text colouring plugin
97 +# Paweł Tęcza <ptecza@net.icm.edu.pl>
98 +package IkiWiki::Plugin::color;
105 + hook(type => "preprocess", id => "color", call => \&preprocess);
106 + hook(type => "sanitize", id => "color", call => \&sanitize);
109 +sub preserve_style(@) { #{{{
110 + my ($colors, $text) = @_;
111 + $colors = '' unless $colors; # foreground and background colors
112 + $text = '' unless $text; # text
115 + my ($color1, $color2) = ();
116 + $colors = lc($colors); # Regexps on lower case strings are simpler
117 + if ($colors =~ /,/) {
118 + # Probably defined both foreground and background color
119 + ($color1, $color2) = ($colors =~ /(.*),(.*)/);
122 + # Probably defined only foreground color
123 + ($color1, $color2) = ($colors, '');
126 + # Validate colors. Only color name or color code are valid.
127 + my ($fg, $bg) = ();
128 + $fg = $color1 if ($color1 &&
129 + ($color1 =~ /^[a-z]+$/ || $color1 =~ /^#[0-9a-f]{3,6}$/));
130 + $bg = $color2 if ($color2 &&
131 + ($color2 =~ /^[a-z]+$/ || $color2 =~ /^#[0-9a-f]{3,6}$/));
133 + my $preserved = '';
135 + $preserved .= 'COLORS {';
136 + $preserved .= 'color: '.$fg if ($fg);
137 + $preserved .= '; ' if ($fg && $bg);
138 + $preserved .= 'background-color: '.$bg if ($bg);
139 + $preserved .= '} SROLOC;TEXT {'.$text.'} TXET';
146 +sub replace_preserved_style(@) { #{{{
147 + my $content = shift;
150 + $content =~ s/COLORS {/<span style="/;
151 + $content =~ s/} SROLOC;TEXT {/">/;
152 + $content =~ s/} TXET/<\/span>/;
158 +sub preprocess (@) { #{{{
159 + return preserve_style($_[0], $_[2]);
162 +sub sanitize (@) { #{{{
165 + return replace_preserved_style($params{content})
166 + if (exists $params{content})
170 --- /dev/null 2008-07-24 09:38:19.000000000 +0200
171 +++ color.mdwn 2008-07-25 14:50:19.000000000 +0200
173 +\[[!template id=plugin name=color core=0 author="[[Paweł Tęcza|ptecza]]"]]
175 +This plugin can be used to color a piece of text on Ikiwiki page.
176 +It's possible setting foreground and/or background color of the text.
178 +The plugin syntax is very simple. You only need to type name (e.g. `white`)
179 +or HTML code of colors (e.g. `#ffffff`) and a text you want to color.
180 +The colors should by separated using a comma character.
182 +Below are a few examples:
184 + \[[!color white,#ff0000 "White text on red background"]]
186 +Foreground color is defined as a word, background color is defined as HTML
189 + \[[!color white "White text on default color background"]]
191 +Foreground color is default color if only one color was typed and a comma
192 +character is missing.
194 + \[[!color white, "White text on default color background"]]
196 +Background color is missing, so the text is displayed on default background.
198 + \[[!color ,#ff0000 "Default color text on red background"]]
200 +Foreground is missing, so the text has default color.