[dokuwiki] Re: Line-break preservation in Wiki text


On 22 Feb 2008, at 17:25, James wrote:
On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:17:51 -0800, Todd Augsburger <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: 


Chris,
Personally, I have no problem at all using thee "\\ " or "\\" syntax for 
line breaks, as documented.
I agree with Todd - the "\\ " syntax offers better control; in exchange, I've had to train my users to not expect linebreaks for every carriage return. (I've found that wiki markup is _not_ easy for non-technical or non-programmer type users...)
In terms of having a "nicer" looking wiki source file, I did write myself a small syntax plugin so that lines ending with three consecutive spaces had the same behavior as the "\\ " syntax - kinda similar to Markdown, if you're familiar with it. It's merely a visual convenience, but I like it. 



Just to clarify, I am not proposing removal of the "\\" syntax.

The question really is:

(1) is it a change worth making in the DW core (ie. my alternative 1) ?
(2) if no to (1), is it worth making a change to DW to allow DW to be extended in this area as the current plugin interface isn't really suitable for this change (ie. 3 or 4).
The line-break plugin does work after a fashion within the current DW, but it doesn't work all the time and has limitations and as I say in the proposal, it has to do a lot of work to achieve something that could be handled really simply if the correct part of DW (Doku_Renderer_xhtml::cdata()) could have its behaviour modified/ extended. 

--Chris
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