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Description

This feature introduces the new element { } to the FlexWiki FormattingRules. It is analagous to the existing {@ }@ markup, however, it allows for Textile and other FlexWiki formatting to be applied to the text inside.

Usage

It is common for developers to show code snippets in FlexWiki using this notation

 {@
    public void Foo()
    {
        // comment here
        string s;
       ...
    }
 }@

and this would in turn result in

   public void Foo()
   {
       // comment here
       string s;
      ...
   }

However, for purposes of showing large amounts of code, a lot of developers are used to seeing code presented with color syntax highlighting. To allow for this, you can use the { } syntax and then use the normal FlexWiki FormattingRules to apply styles. For example, this code

 {+
    %blue%public void%% Foo()
    {
        %green%// comment here%%
        %blue%string%% s;
...
    }
 }+

Would result in this output

   public void Foo()
   {
       // comment here
       string s;
       ...
   }

which will look extremely familiar to all of the Visual Studio developers out there.

Most of the normal FlexWiki processing is done on this text, it just maintains the fixed-width font and the whitespace presentation that is normally associated with the {@ }@ FlexWiki tag or the <pre> HTML tag. This processing includes Simple , Linking, Text size and Color, and Alternative or Textile