Our wiki software is ugly

[Scott Ritchie]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 21:25 -0500, Mitchell Mebane wrote:
> Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Our wiki software needs a major update, especially as we start to expect
> > users to actually read it.
> >
> > For instance, look at the FAQ page: 
> >
> > Then, click on edit and see how it should look.  From what I can tell,
> > there are a few obvious errors:
> >
> > 1) The wiki software is completely ignoring line breaks.  I could hit
> > return 4 times and the HTML rendered would be on subsequent lines,
> > without a break or paragraph tag between them.
> > 2) For some completely strange reason, if you make a list item that
> > includes a link then the entire list item will be in a smaller font.
> > This makes for extremely weird and inconsistent lists when a link to
> > another wiki page is included in some, but not all, of the items.
> >   
> This is due to http://wiki.winehq.com/wiki/winehq/css/screen.css
> 
> #pagebar {
>     font-size: 1em;
> }
> 
> Making links overrides this style, and the preview page does not have 
> this problem, because the content of the preview page is not enclosed in 
> the #pagebar element.
> 
> Not sure about the others yet.  Could you elaborate on #3 a bit more?
> 
> --Mitchell Mebane
> 
> > 3) Header text is almost impossible to figure out right, and there is
> > absolutely no standard of what we should do.
> >
> > Is there a reason we chose the software we did?  Would it be too hard to
> > migrate to something else, or at least fix the display bugs?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott Ritchie

Regarding header text: do I use 1 = sign, or two, or three, or four, or
even five?  Pages vary considerably around the entire wiki, though this
might be our fault as authors rather than the software.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie