Hi, I've been exploring Google Code Hosting for about a month now, and I'm generally quite happy with it. But there's one minor annoyance. WikiSyntax just seems too limited. I'm not talking about any one feature I'm missing, but more a general feeling of incompleteness. A few examples (some reported as a feature request, some not):
* Syntax highlighting in code sections is always on, and the font is rather small. I can't seem to fix these problems, since using the font- tag makes the code lose its code markup. * I would like to be able to put a faint border and background-color behind inline code, to make it more distinguishable from the rest of the text. A border for inline text would be useful in other ways as well. * It doesn't seem to be possible to simulate wiki markup with the available html. This means that if I need something the wiki can't offer me natively (like a cell spanning multiple columns of the table), I must fall back to the less attractive html table style. * You can't easily display mathematical formula's, as is possible in MediaWiki, for example. The available workarounds available are unattractive. If I use an image, I can't edit the formula as text in the wiki. Gadgets are a bit heavy for such a trivial task. Plus, as I understand it, they can't be displayed inline. * You can't use wiki syntax characters without them being interpreted as such. Prefixing with ! (or anything else, as I can tell) does not work. There are some workarounds for this. |<i></i>| makes a ||. <font size=3>`[`</font> makes a passable [ character. But it shouldn't be this hard. There are more examples. I believe most of them come down to artificial limits on the wiki placed there to keep things simple. I will continue to use the wiki anyway, because it works, it's nicely integrated with the rest of Google Code, and there are in fact workarounds for many of these problems. But I would prefer the wiki to be able to handle more. In fact, come to think of it, allowing more kinds of HTML would solve many of these problems. What do you think? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hosting at Google Code" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code-hosting?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
