[Pmwiki-users] Another idea before bedtime...
Christian Ridderström
chr
Mon Jan 5 16:18:17 CST 2004
Hi
I just added some text to a wiki page and noticed that the perhaps most
common use I have for [[<<]] is in markup like this:
:boost: Could someone add an explanation plz? -- Christian [[<<]] \
Is the URI http://www.boost.org ?
I.e. I use first a simple break line, directly followed by a line
continuation character. This is actually a bit stupid IMO.... what I
really want to do is force a line break without leaving the current
paragraph style.
So here's another suggestion based on '\\'... skip the break paragraph
thing (i.e. leave that as [[<<]]) and let '\\' be newline, and '\' be line
continuation. Then the markup could look like this:
:boost: Could someone add an explanation plz? -- Christian \\ \
Is the URI http://www.boost.org ?
or like this:
:boost: Could someone add an explanation plz? -- Christian \\\
Is the URI http://www.boost.org ?
but both actually represent two 'tokens', not one.
Oh, and why do I need the combo [[<<]] \ well, I think the need shows
up when you're using a text editor (in my case Emacs with pmwiki-mode) to
edit the page... because you like to keep the markup formatted, just like
you would for source code, i.e. it's easier to read => it's faster to work
with.
/Christian
PS.
Some statistics for my site (427 pages) of frequence of different markup:
Markup etc N.o pages Comment
[[<<]] 81
\ 63
\\ 6 (4 appear in regexps, 2 in latex examples)
[[<<]]\ 16
[[<<]] \ 40
So as you can see, I do use [[<<]]\ or [[<<]] \ quite frequently.
I added the results here:
http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki?pagename=Development.MarkupFrequency
It would be interesting if other people added simiarl statistics.
--
Dr. Christian Ridderstr?m, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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