[pmwiki-users] Numbered lists and multi-paragraph
DaveG
pmwiki at solidgone.com
Tue Jul 26 20:40:49 CDT 2005
Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:18:38PM -0400, DaveG wrote:
>
>
>> Still not sure what's happening in this case:
>> # Line 1 \\
>> Attach:abc.jpg \\
>> # Line 2
>>
>>
>
>A backslash at the end of a line "joins" the subsequent line to the
>previous one. Extra backslashes introduce line breaks. So, the
>two slashes after the image above cause # Line 2 to be treated as
>a continuation of Line 1, which isn't what you want.
>
>
Not sure your description is totally accurate. The \\ joins the
subsequent line, but is primarily used when you want a styling affect to
carry from the first to the second line, rather than to merely merge to
lines. If you simply enter a single carriage return, the lines join
together, no \\ required:
abc
def
Results in:
abc def
This is confusing, particularly with images:
abc
Attach:image.jpg
Results in:
abc <image>
rather than:
abc
<image>
To get the affect with no blank line output, we need to:
abc\\\
Attach:image.jpg
Newbie members at my site frequently hit a single cr at the end of a
line, only to have it join back to the originating line. Why not just do
a <br> on a single cr, and use the \\ to span styles over lines, and
thus eliminate \\\? I suspect there's plenty of history I'm missing
here... :)
~ ~ Dave
>As you already discovered; the general mechanism to get a blank line
>in the output is to put a blank line in the input. :-)
>
>
This makes sense... except for the examples above!
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