[Pmwiki-users] Re: Suggestions for [[<<]] replacement.

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:42:34PM -0500, J. Perkins wrote:
> My apologies if this seems a stupid question, but what are the issues 
> with letting a newline mean <br>? I don't understand why a special 
> markup is needed.

Two reasons:
1.  There are many people, myself included, who like lines to 
automatically wrap even when newlines are there.  My guess from the 
responses I've received on this issue is that there's just about an even
50-50 split between those who want text to wrap around newlines and
those who want newlines to generate <br> characters.  

2. Even if newline means <br>, we still need some sort of markup to allow
<br>'s to be generated when the newline has to be embedded in some
other construct such as a table cell or wiki style.

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