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 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). |