[Pmwiki-users] Another idea before bedtime...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:35:26PM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> I should emphasize that (these days ;-) I think that '\\' should be used 
> as break-line markup only when it's at the end of a line.

Makes sense to me.

> We would then have these markup examples with corresponding results:
> 
> 	* Start of line. \\\		* Start of long line
> 	New paragraph...		  	
> 					  New paragraph...
> 
> Where '\\\' was used for breaking and creating a new paragraph, i.e. 
> inserting <P>.

Keep in mind it's not sufficient to just insert a <p>... XHTML requires
a closing </p> as well.  Consider:

      * Start of long line. \\\           * Start of long line.
      New paragraph...\\ 
      New line\\\                         New paragraph...
      New paragraph.                      New line

                                          New paragraph

In XHTML this has to be generated as

   <li>Start of long line.
     <p>New paragraph <br />
        New line</p>
     <p>New paragraph</p></li>

and finding the locations for the </p>'s can be a bit tricky.  In many
respects I'd like to eliminate the <p>'s from PmWiki's output entirely,
and just replace them with <br /><br /> so that I don't have to deal with
the containerization issues.

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