Talk:Text formats

Some points:

A- Fix places without "format"

a) inline format info (like trusttest -> Sam)

b) add formatxxx fields in all missing places. Naming schema "xxxformat" (exam. "descriptionformat").

- db new fields.

- upgrade

- forms modification (combined element)

- backup & restore

- Need conversion to HTML format (always enabled plugin) from all formats

- convert all the old format fields to use the new naming schema.

- backup and restore

- forms modification

B- Make them modular (pluggable. OOP) (lib/format and lib/formatlib.php, get_format()->do_stuff())

C- Enable at site/course levels?

D- Upgrade to detect formats must be clever detecting current formats (and will be heavy!)

E- Each format can have ONE and only ONE "especial editor" attached.

F- Can have "special" editors for other formats.

G- User preferences to a) Choose format and b) "Use special text editor if available" yes/no.

- USED formats have precedence over USER settings, so editing existing texts won't change the format at all.

- Only new texts can select (user setting) the format.

- If the user voluntary has disabled "use text editor" above, format won't change when editing new fields.

- If the user lacks the requirements of the editor => switch to FORMAT_MOODLE

- New installs/users will default to FORMAT_MOODLE + enabled editor.

H- Wiki format (mediawiki). Coming from nwiki hopefully.

I - Conflicts between formats and some filters sharing same syntax:

a) make filters to use prefixes and allow them to be automatically informed to the formats. Complex.

b) Use some alternate syntax (a safe one)

J- Filters: Any relation with formats? Enable/disable them by format?

K - Offtopic: Posibility to enable/disable filters by context.

L - Is a format the same than a parser (in nwiki slang). Note wiki module, for compatibility will have various parsers (ewiki, mediawiki, simplewiki...)

M - Some modules can "enforce" the use of one format for everybody (like wiki) ?

--Eloy Lafuente (stronk7) 03:29, 15 October 2008 (CDT)