Recently I've wanted to colour some piece of text on my Ikiwiki page. It seems that Markdown can do it only using HTML tags, so I used `foo bar baz`. However, in my opinion mixing Markdown syntax and HTML tags is rather ugly, so maybe we should create a new color plugin to add more color to Ikiwiki ;) I know that another Wikis have similar plugin, for example [WikiDot](http://www.wikidot.com/). I've noticed that htmlscrubber plugin strips `style` attribute, because of security, so probably we need to use `class` attribute of HTML. But then we have to customize our `local.css` file to add all color we want to use. It's not as easy in usage like color name or definition as plugin argument, but I don't have a better idea right now. What do you think about it? --[[Paweł|ptecza]] > Making a plugin preserve style attributes can be done, it just has to add > them after the sanitize step, which strips them. The general method is > adding placeholders first, and replacing them with the real html later. > > The hard thing to me seems to be finding a syntax that is better than a > ``. A preprocessor directive is not really any less ugly than html > tags, though at least it could play nicely with nested markdown: --[[Joey]] > > \[[!color red,green """ > Xmas-colored markdown here > """]] >> I'm glad you like that idea. In my opinion your syntax looks good. >> Out of curiosity, why did you used 2 colors in your example? What is HTML >> result for it? ;) >>> I was thinking one would be foreground, the other background. Don't >>> know if setting the background makes sense or not. >> I can try to create that plugin, if you are too busy now. I'm not Perl >> hacker, but I wrote a lot of Perl scripts in my life and color plugin >> doesn't seem to be very hard task. --[[Paweł|ptecza]] >> Yes, it's a good intro plugin, have at it! --[[Joey]] --- This is a RC1 of my `color` plugin. It works for me well, but all your comments are very welcome. --[[Paweł|ptecza]] --- /dev/null 2008-07-24 09:38:19.000000000 +0200 +++ color.pm 2008-07-25 14:43:15.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +#!/usr/bin/perl +# Ikiwiki text colouring plugin +# Paweł Tęcza +package IkiWiki::Plugin::color; + +use warnings; +use strict; +use IkiWiki 2.00; + +sub import { #{{{ + hook(type => "preprocess", id => "color", call => \&preprocess); + hook(type => "sanitize", id => "color", call => \&sanitize); +} #}}} + +sub preserve_style(@) { #{{{ + my ($colors, $text) = @_; + $colors = '' unless $colors; # foreground and background colors + $text = '' unless $text; # text + + # Check colors + my ($color1, $color2) = (); + $colors = lc($colors); # Regexps on lower case strings are simpler + if ($colors =~ /,/) { + # Probably defined both foreground and background color + ($color1, $color2) = ($colors =~ /(.*),(.*)/); + } + else { + # Probably defined only foreground color + ($color1, $color2) = ($colors, ''); + } + + # Validate colors. Only color name or color code are valid. + my ($fg, $bg) = (); + $fg = $color1 if ($color1 && + ($color1 =~ /^[a-z]+$/ || $color1 =~ /^#[0-9a-f]{3,6}$/)); + $bg = $color2 if ($color2 && + ($color2 =~ /^[a-z]+$/ || $color2 =~ /^#[0-9a-f]{3,6}$/)); + + my $preserved = ''; + if ($fg || $bg) { + $preserved .= 'COLORS {'; + $preserved .= 'color: '.$fg if ($fg); + $preserved .= '; ' if ($fg && $bg); + $preserved .= 'background-color: '.$bg if ($bg); + $preserved .= '} SROLOC;TEXT {'.$text.'} TXET'; + } + + return $preserved; + +} #}}} + +sub replace_preserved_style(@) { #{{{ + my $content = shift; + + if ($content) { + $content =~ s/COLORS {//; + $content =~ s/} TXET/<\/span>/; + } + + return $content; +} #}}} + +sub preprocess (@) { #{{{ + return preserve_style($_[0], $_[2]); +} #}}} + +sub sanitize (@) { #{{{ + my %params = @_; + + return replace_preserved_style($params{content}) + if (exists $params{content}) +} #}}} + +1 --- /dev/null 2008-07-24 09:38:19.000000000 +0200 +++ color.mdwn 2008-07-25 14:50:19.000000000 +0200 @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +\[[!template id=plugin name=color core=0 author="[[Paweł Tęcza|ptecza]]"]] + +This plugin can be used to color a piece of text on Ikiwiki page. +It's possible setting foreground and/or background color of the text. + +The plugin syntax is very simple. You only need to type name (e.g. `white`) +or HTML code of colors (e.g. `#ffffff`) and a text you want to color. +The colors should by separated using a comma character. + +Below are a few examples: + + \[[!color white,#ff0000 "White text on red background"]] + +Foreground color is defined as a word, background color is defined as HTML +color code. + + \[[!color white "White text on default color background"]] + +Foreground color is default color if only one color was typed and a comma +character is missing. + + \[[!color white, "White text on default color background"]] + +Background color is missing, so the text is displayed on default background. + + \[[!color ,#ff0000 "Default color text on red background"]] + +Foreground is missing, so the text has default color. + +This plugin is not enabled by default. You can do that in [[ikiwiki.setup]] +file (hint: `add_plugins` variable).