Phaidra flavored Markdown

Learning content served to the frontend is parsed through an extended version of Python-Markdown.

Some of the features to enhance ease-of-editing include:

• Setting the language attribute on text
• Highlighting 'tips' for the user.
• Audio elements
• Inflection/Conjugation Tables
  • Cell highlighting
  • Cell check-off
• Word Breakdowns

Setting the language attribute on text

All Greek text should be denoted as such, so that we can use the best, most readable font face and size.

[lang:grc]ἡ ἡμέρα[/lang] - the day

Note to self: Can/should Greek be automatically wrapped? What implications would this have for the workflow for other languages (especially those that need special fonts)?

Marking the Morphology of a Word

Marking the morphology of a word allows our system to highlight that word if the user gets a related question incorrect.

[lang:grc(fem,sg,nom)]ἡ ἡμέρα[/grc]

Note to self: Investigate more readable alternatives...

Highlighting 'tips' for the user

[tip]
**Look out!**

Ancient Greek is full of irregularities! 
[/tip]

Audio elements

When you want to embed a sound file on the page.

[@[/static/audio/path/to/file.wav]]

Inflection/Conjugation Tables

You can use essentially the same syntax as you would to render a normal table in Markdown, but with some added features.

| Case        | Singular  | Plural  |
| ----------- |:---------:| -------:|
| Nominative  | ὁ         | οἱ      |
| Genitive    | τοῦ       | τῶν     |
| Dative      | τῷ        | τοῖς    |
| Accusative  | τόν       | τούς    |
| Vocative    | -         | -       |

Word Breakdowns

Say you want to break a word into its parts and point out what they each mean (for example: verb stem + futuristic sigma + ending => whoa!)

\ἔ\   Past Indicative Augment
\λιπ\ Verb Stem
\ον\  Ending