Not Quite a Blog

I've always wanted to be able to easily markup <acronym> tags in b2evolution.

There is a plugin, autoacro, for b2evolution that automagically turns certain pre-defined acronyms into markup with the <acronym> tag. That's not what I wanted, so I created my own hack to the b2evolution quicktags editing toolbar to support adding a random acronym to your text.

For example, Let's say you have the following text in a post:

CAPTCHA is an acronym

With my new hack to the _quicktags.toolbar.php plugin, you could select CAPTCHA, hit CTRL-Z (ALT-Z on Windoze) and enter Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart and it would produce the following markup:

If you run b2evo and would like to add this functionality to your blog, do the following (I'm assuming that you have the _quicktags.toolbar.php shipped with version 0.9.0.10 of b2evo):

1. Download my patchfile for the _quicktags.toolbar.php plugin (located in the plugins/toolbars/ directory of your b2evo install).

2. Type:

   patch < quicktags_toolbar_acronym.patch
   

3. That should do it. You should now be able to see the "acronym" button in the editing toolbar (as in the above image). You can also hit CTRL-Z (ALT-Z on Windoze) to activate this function without using the mouse. Note: if this doesn't work for you, you can type patch -R < quicktags_toolbar_acronym.patch and this should restore the _quicktags.toolbar.php file to what it was before.

UPDATE [2005-04-08 13:32:30]: I've changed the tag from <acronym> to <abbr> according to suggestions on the Markdown list. I've also added support for adding mouse-over footnotes using <a class="footnote" title="text of footnote">.