Background images on wiki pages? + How to display wiki icons

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harvey
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Post by harvey »

Wiki page images, both a how-to and a question

My question:

Anyone know -- or can they figure out -- how to assign an image as
a repeating background for a page on the wiki? I want to do exactly
what you see in the preview area while you're editing a wiki page:
the repeating word "DRAFT" displayed faintly in the background, like
a watermark. I know where the file draft.png is stored, but I haven't
figured out how to use it in the way I want. I'm looking for a method
which does not depend on my being logged in to the wiki.


The How-to:

In looking for the solution, I did discover how to embed the wiki's
own system icon images within a wiki page using this macro:

[[Icon(image)]]

Put the macro where you want the icon to appear, substituting the
actual filename of the icon for the word "image". For example, to get
a tiny image of a light bulb, use this:

[[Icon(idea.png)]]

The images are stored here: http://librivox.org/wiki/modern/img/
To view an image, click on its filename.
Great Plains
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Post by Great Plains »

You'd want to do something like:

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.draft {
  background-image: url(draft.png);
  background-repeat: repeat;
}
I don't know if you can modify a per-page style sheet with moinmoin.

You may be able to do something like this:

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{ {{#!box css-class|inline-style
 wiki markup
 } }}
Where you put that above stuff into "inline-style".

I don't know. Haven't tried any of this out, and I'm not at all familiar with moinmoin or its syntax.
Daniel, the Cylon
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harvey
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Location: Idaho

Post by harvey »

Great Plains wrote:

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{ {{#!box css-class|inline-style
 wiki markup
 } }}
Haven't tried any of this out, and I'm not at all familiar
with moinmoin or its syntax.
Daniel, thanks for the ideas.

My reading of Help On Parsers in the wiki help indicates the purpose
of the hash-bang line inside the three curly braces for code samples
(as in your second code snippet) is to call a parser to format the
program code inside the braces for display, rather than to execute it.
So this doesn't appear to be the answer.
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