[pmwiki-users] New Recipe: IntuitiveSpacing
marc
gmane at auxbuss.com
Thu Mar 15 10:50:17 CDT 2007
Hans said...
> See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/IntuitiveSpacing
>
> PmWiki has a number of markup rules which enforce a standardised
> layout of content, by removing empty spaces, empty lines and line
> breaks. Intuitive spacing offers an alternative by preserving spaces
> tabs and empty lines.
>
> This new recipe script contains a number of changes to some PmWiki markup
> definitions, which will override PmWiki's defaults for handling white
> spaces and empty lines.
>
> With this recipe
> * line breaks are honoured.
> * empty lines are honoured as extra vertical space.
> * a half height empty line can be created by inserting new markup >>-<<
> * empty spaces at the beginning of lines are treated as such, not as a
> change to preformatted text.
> * empty spaces at the beginning which are aligned with previous list
> elements will be treated as continuing the list element on the next line.
> * pasting in of tab characters are supported.
> * PmWiki's tab markup -> etc is not changed.
> * pasting in of email content or content from word processors where empty
> spaces were used for layout will look decent and not break the skin
> layout.
> * optionally PmWiki's code and escape markup can be forced to line wrap.
>
>
> Comments and suggestions are welcome and much needed!
This will no doubt be useful for some folk, but I think the name is
misleading; intuitive has become a horribly misused word. A more
accurate title might be something like 'LiteralSpacing' or
'NontypesetText' because intuitive it certainly ain't ;-) Or you could
call it 'Intuitive user experience solution' :-)
--
Cheers,
Marc
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