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]]