Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:53 UTC
Enhancement request (Wiki markup functionality) Caption text in a gallery takes on the centering of the gallery. For an uncentered gallery individual image text may be centered by bracketing with <center>...</center> I have been unable to obtain left justified caption text in a centered gallery, whether that gallery was centered by bracketing with commands or centered via the gallery "align" command. Related to this see https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43035 If there is a method, please let me know, otherwise the following. I am proposing Three methods to obtain this: 1.) Do not propagate centering to the text, wether via bracketing or in the align command. The former since bracketing is required to work around a known bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43186. If that is fixed then general bracketed centering would not be necessary and only the gallery braketing would be disabled for caption text - this can be overridden with center command bracketing in the individual caption text. 2.) Add to the gallery syntax 'aligntext="left"', also "center" and "right". 3.) Accept and process in the captions, in addition to "<center>...</center> the markup "<left>...</left>" and "<right>...</right> (the latter for completeness in right-to-left language markup). (These do not work at the present time, I tried them.) Thanks, - Leonard.
After some discussion on IRC it looks like Parser is a better component for this. Sorry for the noise.
Is this a desired enhancement request? If so, is this bug a good candidate for Google Code-in? https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In
> 1.) Do not propagate centering to the text, wether via bracketing or in the > align command. The former since bracketing is required to work around a known > bug, https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43186. If that is fixed > then general bracketed centering would not be necessary and only the gallery > braketing would be disabled for caption text - this can be overridden with > center command bracketing in the individual caption text I don't think this should be done. I think the majority of time the current behaviour is best. > > 2.) Add to the gallery syntax 'aligntext="left"', also "center" and "right". > Not opposed to this. (Not entirely sure if I see how useful this would be) > 3.) Accept and process in the captions, in addition to "<center>...</center> > the markup "<left>...</left>" and "<right>...</right> (the latter for > completeness in right-to-left language markup). (These do not work at the > present time, I tried them.) > > Thanks, > > - Leonard. Yeah, well those aren't real tags. (Blame the w3c, they only made a center) Use <div align="left"> text </div>. You can also use the text-align css property (In reply to comment #2) > Is this a desired enhancement request? > > If so, is this bug a good candidate for Google Code-in? > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Google_Code-In I don't have strong opinions on how useful a textalign (pt 2) would be. I guess it could be a gci task.
