Re: Twiki Module Enhancements

> Hi,
>
> I am Abhijit and work in a platform team at Yahoo! We recently moved  
> documentation of our project from our Twiki web to mvn, primarily so  
> that we could maintain our documentation more effectively and keep  
> it in sync with rapidly changing feature set of our platform.
>
> I tried using the twiki module. I found it quite a bit done, but  
> there were a bunch of features we needed for us to use it. I have  
> enhanced/modified the twiki module for the following features:
>
> 1. Enable doxia macros in twiki-module. The syntax I have chosen for  
> this is %MACRO_NAME|param=value|param2=value2%
> This was most important for the toc macro. A related change which  
> was needed is #2
>
> 2. Since toc needed the whole doc source to be supplied, I had to  
> modify ByLineSource implementation to have the entire source. Since  
> changing the whole line based implementation was taknig too much, I  
> just emulated whole source reading and supporting the getLine method  
> in the new implementation.
>
> 3. Enable linking of wiki words.
>
> Earlier a [[MyWikiWord]] would get likned to ./MyWikiWord. I am not  
> sure why it was this way. Some light on this? I needed it to point  
> it to ./MyWikiWord.html to be useful. Similarly for linking up  
> wikiwords in [[][]].
>
> 4. Enable HTML tags. I saw a JIRA on this. Its not assigned so I  
> guess I can put in my patch there
>
> 5. Enabling verbatim and blockquote. verbatim did not seem to work  
> properly for me.
>
> We are currently using a patched version of alpha-9 successfully at  
> Yahoo! (for internal usage only). However, We though that the  
> community may benefit from this and decided to contribute back.
>
> I see that the current tag is 11-alpha. I would appreciate if  
> someone could let me know progress on these issues. I will create  
> necessary JIRA for this and add my patch after that.
>
> Thanks
> Abhijit
>
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