[pmwiki-users] linebreaks and Creole

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:21:39PM -0000, marc wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud said...
> > Just to add another data point to this discussion:  The 
> > WikiCreole markup standard had (:linebreaks:) as the default
> > behavior up to version 0.3 of the standard.  
> > 
> 
> This is terrific news. I'll take Creole a bit more seriously now.
> 
> I particularly liked the cited disadvantage of the change:
> 
>   - requires additional markup in addresses and poetry
> 
> Yup, them's some showstoppers!

Actually, the need for linebreaks in addresses and poetry
is exactly what led me to using '\\' to mean 'line break' --
it's visually pretty clean.

Pm