[Pmwiki-users] Idea for extension of special list syntax

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-01-20  06:23 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
>On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Neil Herber wrote:
>
> > At 2005-01-20  05:48 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
> > >Here you go:
> > >         http://www.pmwiki.com/wiki/Test/SyntaxForLongListItems
> > >
> > > > Is there a group or an area on PmWiki.org where such examples would
> > > have an
> > > > natural home?
> > >
> > >How about where I put the example above?
> >
> > I posted my comments there ...
>
>It's probably a good idea to post the comments both on the wiki page and
>post them on the list... sort of like a short time scale v.s. a long time
>scale. The wiki page will be around for a while, but we'll probably forget
>about this thread in a short while :-)
>
>
>Anyway... I think we might still be misunderstanding each other... my
>intention is that all the three snippets should be rendered in the same
>way.  To be specific, I'd like:
>
>         * An item
>         * Another item
>         * A third item with a very long line that keeps on going and 
> going and going and going
>
>to be rendered the same way that
>
>         * An item
>         * Another item
>         * A third item with a very long line \
>           that keeps on going, and going and \
>           going and going
>
>just like before. In addition, I'd like to be able to write:
>
>         * An item
>         * Another item
>         * A third item with a very long line
>           that keeps on going, and going and
>           going and going
>
>
>I don't understand your suggestion of using a right margin though...

In your examples here, the first one does not render the same way as the 
second one unless the viewer has a very narrow window. I was suggesting 
that if there was some kind of "right margin" CSS code (I know virtually 
nothing about CSS, a possible source of confusion) then the two first 
examples above could render more or less the same. The right margin would 
force the third element to wrap before it hit the edge of the window.

But, if what you *really* want is to control where the line breaks occur, 
then your second example seems to be the best way to do it to me.

Your third example reminds me of some horrors I have seen in 
word-processing programs where users have built tables using spaces rather 
than tabs or table-tools.  ;-)

I have put comments on 
http://www.pmwiki.com/wiki/Test/SyntaxForLongListItems as well as here. 
(Good idea!)



Neil

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