Geni's Wikitext now supports image formatting

OK, found a fix for the lining them up. I had to put a   between them. This is the only thing that fixed it other than removing the above header.

Incidentally, thank you for enabling  . It didn;t used to work.

Wow Private User! You really cracked it!
Where did you get this   from? Never seen that before...or do I?

Do you understand why the problem did not occur in my project, lining them up? I must be doing right lol

Sorry for if I have troubled you with my not understanding your problem correctly.

So I put a single space between the images, where you have used the  

Now that we have support for
, - anyone who have managed to create tables using unicode box drawing characters?

Can you post an example maybe?

I made a try on http://www.geni.com/projects/Playground-for-the-Wiki-ds/27364, bt the code was ugly because Geni swallows multiple spaces, so I had to use  

You can use http://lorefnon.me/plain-text-table/ to design, but have to replace all spaces in the columns with &nbsp; and add a space in front of each row and <br clear> at the end.- ugly, but doable.

Try play around with this as a space filler perhaps?:

{{//media.geni.com/p13/89/1a/9e/91/5344483e4ff8e535/single_tab_large.jpg?hash=8a16857f654074a96b721b96d54d7eee8b7f90ccf1970cc62497059935f6aa6c.1763366399|left|5x50px}}

You do not need the visual lines as long as you have the rows. You can't escape the
, you are right about that.k

You managed it well, Private User!
And it looks horrible too in the edit version LOL!!!

But in general it looks good though :)
Not sure how 'users friendly' this all is.

I want to try replicate the columns without the lining and preferably without the loads of &nbsp;

I could manage two rows if only the <center> tag would work

Private User, check my multiple rows at http://www.geni.com/projects/Playground-for-the-Wiki-ds/27364

The programming language looks a lot cleaner and your are in control of all sizes.

I've released some improvements: fixed the center attribute, styled framed images per the suggestions from Private User, and added <span> support. I put a couple examples in Dimitri Gazan's project http://www.geni.com/projects/Playground-for-the-Wiki-ds/27364

And other than serious bugs, that's probably going to do it for wikitext improvements for now -- I've got some other work that the team and I need to attend to! This was fun, though, and I'm excited to see all the nifty designs you'll be able to craft from these.

One more thought, you can use our transparent image ( www.geni.com/images/transparent.gif ) with width and height attributes to create spacers. I'll put an example of that in the playground project, as well.

Thanks Mike Stangel, you've gone above and beyond! We'll work on layout styles, and I think the next stage will be what Erica Howton mentioned and build templates to bring advanced formatting to the less technologically inclined.

Before you go though, do you think you could make the quick change of adding the following CSS (which is the default Wiki style)?

wi-frame { background-color: #F9F9F9; border: 1px sold #CCC; }
wikitext-figcaption { margin: 3px; }

Right now, the frames are pretty ugly. =/

Woohoo! Looks much better. And thanks for fixed the wrap issue. I'm a very happy camper. =)

Mike Stangel, little bug. <span> doesn't seem to work in image frames. For example:

{{//media.geni.com/p13/9a/de/ae/a7/53444839b2474846/irving-institute_t.jpg?hash=2acf7511029c81f6a92642753ae995ee00d691b6ac474f56c3cc491c2a0ff785.1763366399|frame|Irving Institute <span style="font-size:.9em">(demolished)</span>|left|link=//www.geni.com/projects/Irving-Institute-Sleepy-Hollow/11240}}

Also, special characters don't work, like apostrophes. Thanks.

Truly amazing what you have achieved in so little time, Mike Stangel!!!

Thanx so much for us all, to give us the ability to make projects, about sections and what not, so much nicer to look at!! It reaches a point of professionalism if you'd ask me :)

Respect!

Private User you're seeing the new frame styling now, right? I did change the background color and border color per your suggestion.

Putting spans inside the caption text may be more than I can accomplish right now... this parser is written in C (for performance) and the handling of image caption text is separate from the rest of the code. It's not that it's impossible, just that I only have so much time to devote to this. The apostrophe is a significant problem, though, so I'll try to figure out what's going on with that.

Dimitri Gazan I'm pleased that you're pleased. :-)

Mike Stangel - The Subject line of this Thread says "Geni's Wikitext now supports image formatting" -- No place does it warn me that - guess what -- places I sweated long and hard to find a way to enter info so that, when saved, it would be acceptable to me --- now many of those entries will be shown completely differently (and not a way I want them being shown)!!

I am massively displeased about this!!!

Private User you're going to have to show me what you're talking about. I checked a great many projects to make sure they weren't significantly altered by these changes.... obviously with tens of thousands of projects I couldn't check them all.

Mike Stangel, I noticed a bug where you can't add & to any image links.

Private User - ampersands are now fixed (both in img path and its link)

Mike Stangel - I do not use Projects, I was talking about Profiles. I have sent you a PM with a link to one, along with my attempt to explain/point out what is changed on that one.

For anyone following Lois' travails, the culprit was 4 dashes in the About Me text, which is now interpreted as a horizontal rule (line).

Ahhh, so that's why all my lines of dashes in the About Mes have changed to a solid line. Thank you.

Thanks, Mike Stangel!

I've run a migration to identify pre-existing About Me text containing 4 or more dashes NOT on a line alone, and wrap that in "nowiki" tags so they show up as they did before.

Will appended text from a merge continue to now nicely show as a thin horizontal rule? It looks so much neater.