[Pmwiki-users] Idea for extension of special list syntax

[chr@home.se]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Neil Herber wrote:

> > > >         http://www.pmwiki.com/wiki/Test/SyntaxForLongListItems
>
> >I don't understand your suggestion of using a right margin though...
...
> But, if what you *really* want is to control where the line breaks occur, 
> then your second example seems to be the best way to do it to me.

No... I don't want to control the line breaks manually (I'm happy with 
using '\\' for that). It's when I *don't* want to control the line breaks 
that I'd like to be able to write a long list item like this. 

> Your third example reminds me of some horrors I have seen in
> word-processing programs where users have built tables using spaces
> rather than tabs or table-tools.  ;-)

I know :-)  It does however have the advantage of making the source look 
"pretty". In addition, it avoids an ambiguity when you have a long item 
and you can't tell if there is a line break or not. I added an example of 
this problem as snippet 2... would you mind looking (again:-) to see if 
the page still makes sense?

> http://www.pmwiki.com/wiki/Test/SyntaxForLongListItems as well as here. 

/Christian

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