Not sure I'd want them in a wiki then personally. I bet you'd get better mileage out of wordpress. There is probably a plugin where they could highlight text and mark it for pre formatting. On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> wrote: > HTML is a 4 letter word for my users. And I try to avoid mixing HTML with > the Mediawiki > formatting. These are folk dancers, and computers are VERY foreign to them. > But they can > understand the way typewriters work -- some of them still have typewriters! > > JN > > > On 10/07/2011 01:55 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote: > > html pre? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca <mailto: > nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>> > > wrote: > > > > I have a wiki that has instructions for several hundreds of folk > dances. The simplest way > > for folk to put these in is as plain text, then use the "grey box" > wiki feature to > > maintain a monospaced font, as it helps to give the A, B and C parts > of the music and the > > bar counts for each figure -- a very crude tabular format. For those > not familiar, putting > > 2 spaces (some specs say 1 is enough) creates a typewriter like text > box on Mediawiki > > (Wikipedia software). > > > > On my own machines, I have a command line tool in Perl that does this > job to all lines of > > a file. However, for my wiki users, it would be nice to have a link > on the wiki that opens > > a new tab with a text box and a button that will add the spaces to > the text in the box. > > Then the material can be copied and used in the wiki page. I'm sure > someone must have done > > this before, but finding such a beast (or even thinking of the right > search terms) is > > non-trivial. I'd welcome pointers or some prototype HTML/Javascript > or whatever. I'm sure > > it is not that difficult, but though I've done some php, I've no > expertise in Javascript. > > > > Best, JN > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux mailing list > > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> > > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux >