[pmwiki-users] RFC: Core candidate offerings

[Dominique Faure]

On 3/31/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 06:40:26PM +0200, Dominique Faure wrote:
> > On 3/31/06, Dominique Faure <dominique.faure at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > IMHO, an integrated blocklist is a must-have.
> > >
> > > Concerning paragraph layout, I would prefer solution #2 in the sense that:
> > >
> > > 1/ We're already been used to use the '\' mark for paragraph
> > > joining/splitting. That could be considered just as a new aspect of
> > > the existing feature.
> >
> > s/use// ;-)
> >
> > > 2/ End of lines are not always easy to handle when having only
> > > textareas to edit your pages on small screens.
> >
> > Then, I would prefer not to have to take care to where I split
> > paragraphes (as in HTML).
>
> I noticed this week that Dokuwiki has borrowed PmWiki's \\ markup
> but allows it to appear in the middle of markup lines as well as
> the end, as long as the \\ is followed by a space.  Thus:
>
>     Genius is one per cent inspiration, \\ ninety-nine per cent
>     perspiration. \\ -- Thomas Edison
>
> would display as:
>
>     Genius is one per cent inspiration,
>     ninety-nine per cent perspiration
>     -- Thomas Edison
>
> This would only take effect when the \\ is followed by a space,
> if it's before a character (as in \\s) then the backslashes are
> left alone.  (One can of course use [=\\=] quoting if double
> backslashes are actually needed in the output.)
>

An other new aspect of the existing feature (why not borrowing to the
borrower?). And what about \\\... ?