[Pmwiki-users] Motivation for special line continuation (was: Idea for extension..)
chr@home.se
chr
Sat Jan 22 09:58:24 CST 2005
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-01-22 04:39 PM +0100, chr at home.se is rumored to have said:
> >Anyway, what I really wanted to say was that for most of the lists what
> >I'd really like to be able to do is write the list above as:
> >
> > * primary item
> > * secondary item
> > ** sub secondary item
> > same level as secondary (continuation of the text actually)
> > * tertiary item
> >
> >The reason I'd like to be able to write it like this is that it looks
> >"pretty" to my eyes, and it feels natural to me as the writer...
>
> The problem I see with this is knowing the author's intent. Should this be
> rendered as:
...
I would like the markup above to be rendered as:
* primary item
* secondary item
* sub secondary item same level as secondary (continuation
of text actually)
Just wish I'd put a period after 'sub secondary item', and also that I'd
written "same level as subsecondary..." instead of "..as secondary". That
was probably confusing...
Now, why don't I want a newline after the rendering of
'... sub secondary item'?
Mainly to be consistent with how normal paragraph texts in PmWiki are
interpreted. If we write:
Some text. More text.
Even more text.
this will be rendered as
Some text. More text. Even more text.
Another reason is that I don't think you should be breaking the text
manually, that's something the browser should be doing for you. So for
the special cases when you want to force a break I'm happy by requiring
the user to write:
* primary item
* secondary item
** sub secondary item \\
same level as secondary (continuation of the text actually)
* tertiary item
which would render as:
* primary item
* secondary item
* sub secondary item
same level as secondary (continuation of text actually)
* tertiary item
Does this make my position easier to understand, or have I just muddled
the issue further?
/Christian
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