[Pmwiki-users] Idea for extension of special list syntax

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud
Fri Jan 21 08:37:48 CST 2005


On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 04:16:09PM +0100, chr at home.se wrote:
> 
> What about using 'gmane' and it's news interface?  (That's what I do most 
> of the time anyway... although there is a time lag with that)

I'm so organized about handling things through email that trying to do
it through gmane/news would require reorganizing my entire work process.
But thanks.

> > There doesn't seem to be an "obvious" interpretation, or, in other
> > words, no matter what we decide, there's likely to be a signficant
> > population of authors who will end up being very confused by it or
> > strongly feel it should work differently.
> 
> Do you still feel that way if we make it clear that it's the position of 
> the starting text of the element that the following text need to be 
> aligned with?  

Okay, I'll bite -- exactly how do we make it clear?  I.e., could you
write the text and examples that explain it?  ;-)

And what happens with...

    * Level 1 item
      This is part of the level 1 item
    ** Level 2 item
    ** Level 2 item
       This is a part of the level 2 item
      Is this preformatted text?

or ....

    *      Level 1 item
           This is part of the level 1 item
    ** Level 2 item
    ** Level 2 item
       This is part of the level 2 item
           What is this?

> That reminds me... there's still a bug so that TAB doesn't work for 
> producing monospaced text.

Oh -- can you write a PITS or demo page on pmwiki.org for this?

> However, see my message about how a single space on the beginning of a 
> page can break the layout of the whole page by making it too wide :-(

I'm not sure what can be done about this.  If it's preformatted text,
then PmWiki has no business adding linebreaks where they don't appear
in the markup.

Pm



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