[dokuwiki] Re: Line-break preservation in Wiki text
- From: Christopher Smith <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:52:11 +0000
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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