If there are no objections to that concept, I may try to start coding patches. Otherwise this is really just a [[wishlist]]. --[[anarcat]]
-> Have you looked at the [[plugins/contrib/field]] plugin? This gives you the infrastructure, and all you need is to write a plugin that parses the definition list format. Then you could use [[plugins/contrib/getfield]], [[plugins/contrib/ftemplate]] and/or [[plugins/contrib/report]] to do what you like with the data.
+> Have you looked at the [[/plugins/contrib/field]] plugin? This gives you the infrastructure, and all you need is to write a plugin that parses the definition list format. Then you could use [[/plugins/contrib/getfield]], [[/plugins/contrib/ftemplate]] and/or [[/plugins/contrib/report]] to do what you like with the data.
> --[[KathrynAndersen]]
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> =Orange=
> Orange is a fruit.
>
-> (indented with four spaces). this makes definition lists a bit more attractive for definition harvesting. personally, i'd prefer a solution that works from the markup instead of plugins, as it integrates more naturally in the flow of designing a document, even though a plugin for explicitly stating invisible facts certainly has its purpose too. (think [[!wikipedia RDFa]] here ;-) ) --[[chrysn]]
+> (indented with four spaces). this makes definition lists a bit more attractive for definition harvesting.
+>
+> personally, i'd prefer a solution that works from the markup'ed plain text instead of invisible directives, as it integrates more naturally in the flow of designing a document, even though a plugin for explicitly stating invisible facts certainly has its purpose too. (think [[!wikipedia RDFa]] here ;-) ) --[[chrysn]]