[pmwiki-users] linebreaks behavior setting in config.php?

[marc]

Tegan Dowling said...

> the default isn't, in my experience,
> something that makes sense to people who come to wiki markup from the
> word-processing world.

That's pretty much the crux of it. And because folk have been 
conditioned to behave in a certain way, they struggle to adjust to a 
behaviour that seems unnatural to them - happens in many areas of life, 
of course. But it ignores the fact that the word processing world is a 
latecomer to a very, very mature field. Word processing folk general 
battle with typography too - and make a really, really bad job at it 
[not that the tools help] - yet it has rules of thumb that have been 
derived from centuries of experience. That's one reason why LaTeX output 
will always look "professional" compared to 99.99% of Word docs, even 
when the author has done nothing but thrown their text at it.

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Cheers,
Marc