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Comment on A Tragedy ... Twice Over by Kenny

Kenny — Fri, 02 May 2008 01:02:08 +0000

It was a tragic level crossing accident which resulted in loss of life, but so was the boating crash in Sydney.

So the question is where do we spend the money, as reality is we cannot spend the money in all places.

Comment on Using Textile Markup with MediaWiki by Eric Larson

Eric Larson — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:17:15 +0000

I had to add the hack to get MW 1.11 to render Textile—otherwise it was all 500 error. – EL

Comment on Using Textile Markup with MediaWiki by Nigel Ball

Nigel Ball — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 10:26:21 +0000

Thanks for the comment Jim…

As far as I could tell, the calling methods for Textile and Textile2 seemed to be different, hence the “hack”

I’ll see if I can work out how to use the hook. If I do work it out I’ll post the result.

Comment on Using Textile Markup with MediaWiki by Jim R. Wilson

Jim R. Wilson — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 06:42:41 +0000

Hi Nigel,

Thanks for trying out my AlternateSyntaxParser – glad you like it!

Two quick notes:

1) Since the Textile class provided by Textile2 is the same as for original Textile, there’s no need to hack the extension code in any way. All you have to do is rename ‘classTextile.php’ to just ‘Textile.php’ – and that should be it.

2) In the event that it was going to be more complicated, the preferred way to add a new language is to create a new MediaWiki extension that hooks into the ‘AlternateSyntaxParser’ hook which I created expressly for this purpose. (Admittedly though, that particular feature is not documented).

Thanks again, and I’ll be happy to answer any questions.