[pmwiki-users] linebreaks and Creole

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:07:50PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:58:51PM +0000, J. Meijer wrote:
> > > I am talking mainly about defaults. The (:nolinebreaks:) is the 
> > > pmwiki default. I think it would be cleaner to have this changed. 
> > > [...]
> > > So I challenge: what problem does automatic line-joining really 
> > > solve? I may be able to challenge those that think it is required. 
> > 
> > This particular issue (linebreaks vs. nolinebreaks as default) has 
> > been discussed _many_ times here in the past, with about equal numbers
> > of people arguing for each side.  Proponents of each side have
> > had extremely good and valid reasons for their position.
> 
> Just to add another data point to this discussion:  The 
> WikiCreole markup standard had (:linebreaks:) as the default
> behavior up to version 0.3 of the standard.  
> 
> However, Creole 0.4 appears to be **reversing** the standard
> in this respect, so that line joining (i.e., (:nolinebreaks:) )
> is now the default for Creole markup.  I think that's a pretty 
> strong argument in favor of keeping PmWiki's existing 
> "line-joining by default" behavior -- here we had a group
> that was originally defaulting to linebreaks, but based on
> experience has decided to switch.
> 
> The pros/cons that Creole considered in making this switch are 
> at http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/ChangeLinebreakMarkupProposal .

This is terrific news. I'll take Creole a bit more seriously now.

I particularly liked the cited disadvantage of the change:

  - requires additional markup in addresses and poetry

Yup, them's some showstoppers!

-- 
Cheers,
Marc