[Pmwiki-users] discussion on line breaks

[fcecin@inf.ufrgs.br]

I like this idea, but the other way around: paragraphs marked with "[]"
at the beginning ignore line breaks:

[]First
Second

Third
Fourth

Renders as:

FirstSecond

Third
Fourth

This is because on my current wiki, text is currently pasted from other
sources (emails, webpages) and this requires me to do a lot of hand
fixing, and I end up just making almost everything a bulleted list (* ) to
get the desired effect.

Also, in this way you get to do less scrolling in the page edit control
when you are editing (uses less space)

Maybe this is not the best approach for everyone, but having a single
local.php variable customization to toggle the default behavior would 
be nice.

p.s.: Maybe a really nifty addition would be a page edit-box that displays
spaces as centered dots and line breaks as those mirrored-P weird 
characters (like in MS Word) ? :-)

[]'s
Fabio

On 17 Jul 2003 at 12:00, Pmwiki-users-request at pmichaud.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 10:16:37 -0400
> From: "Dawn Green" <green at thunderdata.com>
> Subject: Re: [Pmwiki-users] discussion on line breaks
> To: "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com>,	"PmWiki Users"
> 	<pmwiki-users at pmichaud.com>
> 
> I like this idea the best.  It covers both a large block and two lines of text
> using the same markup.  And I don't mind the [] at all.
> 
> Dawn
> 
> "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > Another possibility:  Have a markup sequence that indicates that
> > linebreaks are to be honored up through the next paragraph or
> > block-level formatting element.  I'll use [] in the example below,
> > even though that's probably not the best choice...
> > 
> >     [] some things we know we know,
> >     some things we know we don't know,
> >     some things we wish we didn't know.
> > 
> >     some things we know we know,
> >     some things we know we don't know,
> >     some things we wish we didn't know.
> > 
> > resulting in
> > 
> >     some things we know we know,
> >     some things we know we don't know,
> >     some things we wish we didn't know.
> > 
> >     some things we know we know, some things we know we 
> >     don't know, some things we wish we didn't know.
> >(....)