Some Notes on Trac Wiki Formatting

Observations

Like MoinMoin, Trac Wiki relies on whitespace more than most other wikis. With most wikis, text is just flowed probably because this is convenient for editing within browser's textareas. But in MoinMoin, list items must be indented with spaces. Same with definition lists. This means MoinMoin is more text editor oriented. Programmers' text editors deal with indentation easily.

I suggest having two toolbar buttons for indenting and outdenting blocks of text. Otherwise, it is too tedious to indent a block of text in a browser's textarea, going line by line entering spaces.

Mostly a Subset of MoinMoin

Internationalization

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Tables

Heading 1	Heading 2	Heading 3
Cell 1	Cell 2	Cell 3
Cell 4	Cell 5	Cell 6

Lists

• A list can have newlines in them.
• This works nicely.
• Can you have code examples mixed within a list

  i = i + 1;
  

• Yes!
• Code can be marked up using back-quotes like this or using braces like this.
• You can even have bold code like this or like this.
  • You can nest sublists by indenting. Yes, new lines work within nested list items as you would expect.
  • I'd have to say, I like how this handles newlines in list items better than MoinMoin. MoinMoin requires that the beginning of the next line be aligned with the asterisk, which looks very unnatural.
  • Compared to MediaWiki? wikitext, one would welcome some text editor help with indenting and outdenting.
  • Here is another item in the nested list.
• Back to the outer list.

• A blank line terminates the list.
• Can you have multiple paragarphs within a list item. <p>Let's see.</p>

Back to normal paragraph. Yes!

i = i + 1;

Is this a bug some link.

SomethingNew?

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