[pmwiki-users] Annoying line break issues.

[Paul Gupta]

Well, thank you all for helping me figure out a solution to this, and
sparking up a bit of discussion on this behavior.

I think it should be easier and better documented for the htmlpnewline
attribute or something.

I appreciate this option being available, even if it's *not* the
default, I just think it might be more appreciated if it was easier to
find :P

Paul Gupta



On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 17:42, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:33:37PM -0500, Randy Brown wrote:
>> I didn't realize that legacy-compatibility is the main reason the default is nolinebreaks.
>
> It's not simply legacy compatibility... nolinebreaks is also my preference.
> This setting is also the default per the WikiCreole 1.0 standard
> (http://wikicreole.org/), as well as being the standard that Wikipedia
> (MediaWiki) uses for its markup.
>
> In the case of WikiCreole, there was a very long discussion arguing the merits
> of both sides before finally selecting on the behavior that PmWiki and other
> wikis tend to use by default.
> See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Talk.ChangeLinebreakMarkupProposal .
>
> In short, I don't expect us to be changing the default setting anytime
> soon.  I recognize that there are many sites that would prefer the other
> setting to be the default and they have very good reasons for wanting that
> default... which is why $HTMLPNewline exists.
>
> If there's enough demand to warrant adding a (:resetlinebreaks:)
> markup, I'm not very opposed to doing so.
>
> Pm
>