Talk:Help strings

Just to say that the actual implementation is more HTML rendering although not the same in the mouse over than in the pop-up window

 
 HTML <br/> or <p>  are necessary to create a newline and <b> gives bold
 
 
<b>Like with short answer questions</b> gives bold 

i.e. Like with short answer questions  in the pop-up but not in the mouse over. 

List with * does not work. <br/> In this case, the first * Unordered Lists are easy to do: ** start every line with a star *** more stars means deeper levels

What will be the final standards?

Pierre Pichet 00:05, 29 April 2010 (UTC) as of --Pierre Pichet 16:31, 30 April 2010 (UTC) HTML <br/> or <p> are filtered and newline can be obtained by <div>...</div> , a <b> gives bold only on help window.

From tracker MDL-21695 :

David Mudrak added a comment - 01/May/10 12:55 AM Pierre - yes, help.php does not properly handle format yet.

I tend to call the future "standard" help format as MINIWIKI format. The proposed behaviour is following:

• if the help string contains any

  tag, then it is considered legacy string copied from the HTML and will be rendered as plain HTML (so all copied help files will work)

• if there is no

  tag used, then the help string is expected to be in MINIWIKI format.

Where MINIWIKI can be defined as:

• no

  tags are allowed

• linebreaks are put automatically, using newline characters. The behaviour of newlines is the most significant difference between HTML and MINIWIKI
• unordered and ordered lists are supported using * and # as the first character on the line. One level only, no support for nesting in help
• all other common HTML tags are rendered as expected - etc.

This will allow us to use HTML where needed, but we will keep English master copies as simple as possible.