[pmwiki-users] TextFormatting: [+ big +] vs. '+ big +'

[Marc Cooper]

Christian Bartolomaeus said...

> I always used [+ +] and [- -] for bigger or smaller text. That's what
> Site/EditQuickReference [actually it was the former
> PmWiki/EditQuickReference] told me to do when I started using PmWiki
> and I never thought about it anymore. 
> 
> Just today, after someone asked on pmwiki-users-de, I noticed that the
> guiedit button for "small text" uses '-small text-' and the button for
> "big text" uses '+big text+'. 
> 
> I took a look at scripts/stdmarkup.php and learned that the different
> methods generate different HTML-Output:
> 
>   [-text-] -> <small>text</small>
>   [+text+] -> <big>text</big>
> 
>   '-text-' -> <span style='font-size:80%'>text</span>  # or similar
>   '+text+' -> <span style='font-size:120%'>text</span> # or similar
> 
> The ChangeLog says that '- -' and '+ +' were introduced with Version
> 2.0.devel11 in october 2004.
> 
> Now I took a look at the Documentation:
> 
> * EditQuickReference only mentions [- -] and [+ +]
> * BasicEdition also mentions only [- -] and [+ +]
> * MarkupMasterIndex mentions both methods but doesn't give further
>   informations
> * TextFormattingRules gives [- -] and [+ +] as the "main" method and
>   mentions '- -' '+ +' as "other styling"
> 
> So my question is: Is there a recommendation which method to use? 

They do different things.

Try:

    fred
    '-fred-' '--fred--'
    [-fred-] [--fred--] [---fred---] [----fred----] [-----fred-----]

Unrelated, but I'd like an option to be added to the [+big+], [-small-] 
markup to allow the scale to be changed. Currently I override it, but 
allowing it to be customized in the PmWIki-way would be better, imo.

-- 
Best,
Marc