On 5/24/07 10:04 AM, "Ian Smith" ismith@good.com wrote:
There's an extension which implements Usenet style syntax (ie. *bold* and _italics_) in MediaWiki -- and it's really simple. I think that this will at least give you an idea of how such an extension can be hooked into MW; in fact, you could probably use the extension as a base, cut out the Usenet formatting code, and paste in the Markdown code:
Thanks for your reply, Ian. I like this approach. My first step in trying to implement this was to install UsenetSyntax and make sure it works. Alas, I installed UsenetSyntax and found that it doesn't work with the current version (1.10.0) of MediaWiki. Here's my sandbox test page: http://simondorfman.com/wiki/Sandbox:test
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. Do you have UsenetSyntax working on a 1.10.0 install?
Thanks, Simon
P.S.-I started a page to help with the writing of this extension and eventually act as the release page: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:MarkdownSyntax