More info on textile

I found a lot more info on textile here

I found it useful, I hope others do to.

I immediately checked to see if it explained how to write nested quotes. I couldn’t find it. AFAIR you can’t use ‘bq’ for this, but something else – which I keep forgetting.

Jim

Sweet
REPEAT
PRINT "Thanks"
UNTIL FALSE
:)

I immediately checked to see if it explained how to write nested quotes. I couldn’t find it. AFAIR you can’t use ‘bq’ for this, but something else – which I keep forgetting.

Plain old HTML <blockquote> tags.

Thanks for reminding me about the blockquote tags. Alas, the problem is that I’ll forget again, and – so far as I can see – it isn’t explained on either this forum’s textile documentation or the one mentioned above!

Yes, I do write things down… then lose the bits of paper. 8-/

Jim

Yes, I do write things down… then lose the bits of paper. 8-/

Have you thought of having a HintsAndTips folder somewhere accessible on your RISC OS computer – pinboard perhaps – where you can put short text files with helpful titles?

Of course, Hints&Tips won’t work!

Yes, I do use ‘temp’ directories. The problem is that they fill up and I duly lose/forget things. Afraid I tend to just work on one or two things at a time, and other things get forgotten or lost. Just as true for computer as on paper.

But my real point here is: shouldn’t textile documentation actually explain things like the fact that ‘bq’ fails for nested quotes and state the required tag? The whole point of documentation is so people don’t have to remember all such details or make their own notes.

Thanks for this. RISC OS is the BEST.

shouldn’t textile documentation actually explain things like the fact that ‘bq’ fails for nested quotes and state the required tag? The whole point of documentation is so people don’t have to remember all such details or make their own notes.

Jim, you’re just a few shy of a kilopost, so you’ve surely been around long enough to understand that proper documentation of Textile would read as:

Yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but no but yes but [repeat until utterly confused and/or bored beyond having long since lost the will]

The only thing you NEED to know is <notextile>...</notextile> for times when it just isn’t going to work out right…

Grrr the Google line has ‘less than symbol’ notextile ‘greater than symbol’ either side so why the underlining?

Oh what fun!!!

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Site:https://www.riscosopen.org/forum+jeffrey+neon

"https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Site:https://www.riscosopen.org/forum+jeffrey+neon":https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Site:https://www.riscosopen.org/forum+jeffrey+neon

https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl#q=Site:https://www.riscosopen.org/forum+jeffrey+neon

Thanks David.

Though I’m still baffled why notextile didn’t work!

Textile tends to ignore you and make URL conversions in dumb places. Here, in some “example code” it gets it wrong twice. Once as the conversion is not wanted, and again as the entire converted string is quoted (thus rendering the pointless exercise utterly pointless):

; imaginary program header
; blahblah v1.0
;
; licenced under the WTFdude licence
; <a href="http://www.wtfdude.com/">http://www.wtfdude.com/</a>
;

I tend to use “hxxp” in quoted code, and the ASCII codes to “tt” (I can’t remember the codes off the top of my head, something like “h&#99;&#99;p”) to defeat Textile’s URL detection. Because it’ll do this regardless of mode and no-Textile-please-dammit settings.

Looking up, sometimes it is easier to wrap URLs that you do want in <a href>…&lt/a> as the automatic version gives up the moment it hits some ‘odd’ characters.

test

been looking for the ‘reply to message’ button because i have no idea how to include previous messages.

reply:
been looking for the ‘reply to message’ button because i have no idea how to include previous messages.
endreply

textile reference does not help .. looks like everyone knows how to reply to a previous post but me.

textile reference does not help .. looks like everyone knows how to reply to a previous post but me.

okay this i found at https://txstyle.org/doc/3/block-quotations

Would be useful to have a sort of style guide and how to for users of the forum that is more practical than the textile reference..

wow

It seems that the font-size thing doesn’t work!

Edit: it seems it does work but I had to log out and back in again! Weird…

h2. Textile

* is a _shorthand syntax_ used to generate valid HTML,
* is *easy* to read and *easy* to write,
* can generate complex pages,
* including headers, quotes, lists, tables, and figures.

p{font-size:0.8em}. *TxStyle* is a documentation project of Textile for "Textpattern CMS":http://textpattern.com.

Gives:

Textile

• is a shorthand syntax used to generate valid HTML,
• is easy to read and easy to write,
• can generate complex pages,
• including headers, quotes, lists, tables, and figures.

TxStyle is a documentation project of Textile for Textpattern CMS.

Textile

• is a shorthand syntax used to generate valid HTML,
• is easy to read and easy to write,
• can generate complex pages,
• including headers, quotes, lists, tables, and figures.

TxStyle is a documentation project of Textile for Textpattern CMS.

Worth remembering that if Textile punctuation interferes with regular punctuation, or if it acts weird, you can inline a reasonable amount of regular HTML:

<h2>Textile</h2>

* is a <i>shorthand syntax</i> used to generate valid HTML,
* is <b>easy</b> to read and <b>easy</b> to write,
* can generate complex pages,
* including headers, quotes, lists, tables, and figures.

<small><b>TxStyle</b> is a documentation project of Textile for <a href="http://textpattern.com">Textpattern CMS</a>.</small>

You can also deactivate Textile’s parsing using <notextile> … </notextile>.

It is also useful to know that the <style> and <span> tags are permitted. Style can set up a CSS style, and Span can invoke a class that uses it.
For simpler effects, one can use <span style=“some CSS here”>…

That, of course, only looked dark green in NetSurf. On a phone/tablet/PC, it will have been green and shimmering.

How? I’ll leave the practical implementation as an exercise for the reader, or the forum risks resembling the days of web design when AOL was a thing. ☺