====== DokuWiki Plugins I Have Known ======

===== jsMath =====



===== definition list plugins =====

Seven plugins correspond to this purpose, more or less, but two are more like accronym tooltip ("explain" and "term") and one is a "simple universal list plugin", whatever **that** means!

How to choose? Build a comparison table, of course! I think I'll try [[http://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:deflist|deflist]].

^ plugin ^ definitionlist ^ definitions ^ deflist ^  dl ^
^ date | 2008-08 | 2005-08  |  2007-08 |  n/a? |
^ claim | (X)HTML Definition lists, simple syntax and smart styling | Adds definition lists to DokuWiki's syntax. | Full range (X)HTML style definition list | Another (X)HTML definition list. IMHO with better (simpler and smarter) syntax |
^ syntax |   ; term : definition \\  ; term \\   : definition | = Item 1 : Definition of item 1.\\  = Item 2 : Definition of item 2.\\  = : Second definition of item 2.\\  = Item 3 : Definition of item 3.\\  = Item 4 : \\  = Item 5 : \\  = Item 6 : Definition of items 4 through 6. |   ?? term/phrase :: definition of term !! |   ? Definition Title \\        Multiple lines are possible \\      ! Definition Description \\      ? Definition Title1 \\      ? Definition Title2 \\      ! Definition Description1 \\      ! Definition Description2 \\      ! Definition Description3 \\        ? Subdefinition \\        ! Description \\      ! Back\\       ? Again deeper |
^ comment | doesn't say whether it can be embedded or can contain other lists or multiple definitions (numbered?) like a dictionary would. |  |  this one seems quite thorough, handling five variants (1:n, n:1, n:n, 1:1, mixed)  |  Simple mark-up, works like other DokuWiki lists.  |
^ cont'd | In the example (on the test page, it shows multiple defs as bullet points. Yuk! | this looks ok, but I prefer the ";" mark-up. | It seems possible to use an ordered list as the dd part, which is very good! |  |
^  interoperability | This plugin is very similar to definitions, it fixes a couple of problems with that plugin, other markup (e.g. formatting, links, etc) is allowed in the definition term and raw wiki data is properly filtered to maintain wiki security.  |  | Inside the definition data other DokuWiki markup may be used e.g. strong, em­pha­sized or un­der­lined text.23) – The following example shows how some other block-level elements are incorporated within a definition list. Besides the afore­said font manipulations there are table, un/ordered list24), footnote and all pos­sible com­bi­na­tions of definition term/data groups. — When using such ne­sted block elements you are, of course, bound by the respective element's syn­tax con­straints25).  |  |