[pmwiki-users] Single Space breaks wrap on entire page

Russell Bailey russell-pmwiki at saberpunk.net
Wed Sep 21 09:30:10 CDT 2005


Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

>On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:32:34AM -0400, Waylan Limberg wrote:
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>>>If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm open for them.  :-)
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>>Personally, having just one space affect the formatting is a little
>>much. Maybe a paragraph should begin with at least four spaces before
>>getting the pre treatment (kind of like you need four or more dashes
>>(-----) to make a horizontal line, but not less). 
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>This is a good point, but changing PmWiki's default here will 
>absolutely break a lot of existing sites that depend on a single 
>space for preformatted text.
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>So, requiring multiple spaces for pre treatment would have to be
>left for a local customization.
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>I wonder if there's something that we could do with <div> and
>CSS positioning here... i.e., if we enclosed <pre> somehow
>in a <div> that eliminates the width problem...?
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>
Maybe a div with its overflow set to scroll,  making the pre text 
basically its own little scrollable frame?




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