[pmwiki-users] Announce: Slender, pmwiki-based wiki making a fresh start

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Wed Jan 24 10:43:51 CST 2007


On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 12:52:46AM +0100, christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, marc wrote:
> >Patrick R. Michaud said...
> >>
> >>But I think that nowadays the only time that [[<<]] is used
> >>is to skip below any floating elements.  Perhaps a wikistyle
> >>would serve the same purpose-- i.e.  %clear% would cause the
> >>current block to appear below any floating content?
> >
> >As long as %clear% will 'work' without any text following it. For
> >example, <!--PageText--> followed by a footer that depends on the clear/
> >[[<<]] in the pages where required. I know it can be done in other ways
> >(e.g. <div style='clear:both;'><div>, say), but [[<<]] has its uses.
> 
> Maybe %clear% should also be used for forcing (or suggesting?) a page 
> break?   Sometimes I print wiki pages, and I often get orphans etc. In 
> those cases it'd be nice to be able to force a page break a bit earlier in 
> the page.

That sounds to me as though we're putting two different behaviors 
under one label (which is bad).  Page breaks are fundamentally different
from "move below floating content", and thus should have an independent
markup.

Pm




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