[pmwiki-users] Some experiments with whitespace indentation

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 03:58:29PM +1300, John Rankin wrote:
> On Monday, 17 October 2005 3:29 PM, Neil Herber <nospam at eton.ca> wrote:
> >At 2005-10-17  01:58 PM +1300, John Rankin is rumored to have said:
> >>5. Just an observation -- matching the exact number of spaces
> >>    seems a bit fragile; for example this is incorrect:
> >
> >Relying on white space for any kind of markup (indents, list 
> >components, or preformatted text)  strikes me as one of the weakest 
> >parts of PmWiki.
> >
> >If PmWiki is truly to be author friendly, then it needs to have 
> >markup that is clear and unambiguous. Aligning spaces is too
> >hit-or-miss.
> >
> ...
> 
> I think what you are getting at is that wiki markup is
> an explicit instruction to do something, whereas using
> the space bar to align text is just a typewriter habit
> that only works for non-proportional fonts. 

I'm not sure that I'd say it's "just a typewriter habit",
it's also a very common electronic mail habit.

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