RE: [Axiom-developer] error and editing

[Page, Bill]

On Tuesday, April 11, 2006 4:23 AM William Sit wrote:
> 
> Last night, I accidentally modified the title of SandBox to 
> [SandBox Trace EXPR] but I think I managed to revert it back.
> Please verify, since Wiki seems to automatically update all
> links once a title is modified.

No problem. I think everything is back to the way it should
be.

> 
> I also found that the preview and resulting display after
> a save not to apply line wrap so that a long paragraph is
> displayed as a long line. This happened both for Firefox and
> IE (and I don't think it is my local settings). In other
> words, the style is not handling html correctly. I tried all 
> sorts of editing style (pamphlet, etc) and none seem to help
> and I had to manually insert linefeeds.

I think the problem was caused by a bug in the formatting
rules for StructuredText in ZWiki which is used on Axiom Wiki
for the Pamphlet page type. In your case the first line of text
contained :: which in StructuredText means "verbatim" text
follows. Normally this is handled properly but for some odd
reason in this case caused the rest of the text to be treated
as verbatim.

My solution was to add an initial heading like this:

Background

  Text that is initially indented under a line above defines
the previous line as a heading.

I also changed a few other places in your text where you
added headings like

Section 1. The Issues

  These are probably related ...

> 
> Somehow, [SandBox Trace EXPR and FRAC] has word wrap but 
> [SandBox Trace Analysed] does not. I left the first text
> paragraph like that as an example.

I think it looks ok now.

> 
> Changing the editing style modified the source too, for 
> example, '0$EXPR' would sometimes turn into $0$EXPR$ which
> would be quite confusing (to me at least).

In Axiom Wiki the $ can sometimes be confused with LaTeX
expressions. The best way to make sure this doesn't happen
is to escape the $ signs with \ like this '\$'. Without
you might see a LaTeX error message at the bottom of the
page.

> 
> I tried to find how to set the wrap line option in 
> preferences but could not.
>

No, as I explained above the failure to line wrap the
rest of the page was due to a bug in the way ZWiki treated
the first paragraph which contained a :: formatting
instruction. By adding the initial heading, it seems to
be possible to work-a-round this bug.
 
> Sorry for the mess up and thanks for fixing up any
> left-overs.
> 

Not a problem. Please check it and see if it looks
better to you now.

Regards,
Bill Page.