PmWiki uses WikiStyles for styling text with color and other attributes. PmWiki 2.0 introduced the ability to control the styling further and to even place styles on blocks.
A style is specified within a pair of %-signs and styles the text that follows, as in:
This text is %color=red% red, %color=blue% blue, %% and normal (black).
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This text is red, blue, and normal (black).
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There are a wide number of available style properties, borrowed primarily from HTML and CSS. In addition, an author can define a style “shortcut” by using the define= property. For example, to define a style of %red%, one can use:
%color=red define=mystyle%
Here is some %mystyle% red text created using a style shortcut.
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Here is some red text created using a style shortcut.
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Shortcuts can be combined with other styles, including other shortcuts:
%color=red define=lovelyred%
%bgcolor=yellow define=likegrapefruit%
%red% This text is red, %red bgcolor=#ccc% red on a grey background, and
%lovelyred likegrapefruit% red on a yellow background.
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This text is red, red on a grey background, and red on a yellow background.
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So far, this is all basically the same as what was available in PmWiki 1.0. PmWiki 2.0 includes the capability to style blocks, by using the apply= style property. Specifying apply=block in a WikiStyle will cause that style to be applied to the entire block, instead of just the text that follows:
This entire block %apply=block bgcolor=yellow% has a yellow background,
even though the `WikiStyle appears in the middle of the line.
%bgcolor=pink% Other inline (non-block) WikiStyles can appear in the middle
of the line,%% as before.
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This entire block has a yellow background, even though the WikiStyle appears in the middle of the line. Other inline (non-block) WikiStyles can appear in the middle of the line, as before.
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This means it’s now possible to do right-aligned and centered text:
%block text-align=right% The text of this paragraph is right-aligned.
%block text-align=center% The text of this paragraph is centered.
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The text of this paragraph is right-aligned.
The text of this paragraph is centered.
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In fact, PmWiki predefines %right% and %center% style shortcuts so that you can do this more simply:
%right% This is right-aligned.
%center% This is centered.
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This is right-aligned.
This is centered.
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Authors can define their own custom styles:
%block bgcolor=#fdf define=Pm%
%center bgcolor=#dfd border='3px dotted green' define=goofy%
%right bgcolor=#ffffcc border='1px dotted red' padding=5px
define=rediguana%
%define=strike text-decoration=line-through%
%Pm% Any text that is on a light purple background is a comment from "Pm".
%goofy% Here's some text from Goofy.
%rediguana% bla bla by rediguana!
%goofy%Hello, I am %strike%upset%% %strike%disheartened%% happy to meet
you.
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Any text that is on a light purple background is a comment from “Pm”.
Here’s some text from Goofy.
bla bla by rediguana!
Hello, I am upset disheartened happy to meet you.
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Styles can be applied to almost any kind of block:
* %block bgcolor=yellow% Here is a list item
* Here's another list item
* Here's more of a list
# A new list
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- Here is a list item
- Here’s another list item
- Here’s more of a list
- A new list
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In particular, this means that outlines are now possible using the predefined %ROMAN%, %roman%, %ALPHA%, and %alpha% list-block styles. The style has to be specified on the first item in the list (and we may develop an alternate syntax for this sort of ordered list):
# %ROMAN% Top level
## %ALPHA% second-level
## second-level
## second-level
### third-level
### third-level
## second-level
### third-level
#### %alpha% fourth-level
##### %roman% fifth-level
##### fifth-level
#### fourth-level
# top-level
# top-level
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- Top level
- second-level
- second-level
- second-level
- third-level
- third-level
- second-level
- third-level
- fourth-level
- fifth-level
- fifth-level
- fourth-level
- top-level
- top-level
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WikiStyles can be combined with CSS stylesheets to do this automatically — see Cookbook:OutlineLists.
Q & A
How do I get a block of preformatted text with a colored background and a border?
Use something similar to this:
%block bgcolor=#f0f9ff border='1px solid gray' padding=5px%[@
ip access-list extended example-acl
remark ** This is an example acl **
deny ip any host 10.0.0.1
permit ip any any
@]
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ip access-list extended example-acl
remark ** This is an example acl **
deny ip any host 10.0.0.1
permit ip any any
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