[pmwiki-users] How to control vspace per page or markup section

[H. Fox]

On 3/29/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:20:24PM +1200, Allister Jenks wrote:
> >    On 3/29/06, I <arj at zkarj.co.nz> wrote:
> >
> >      I had the sudden epihany of >>float=right<< but that puts the list down
> >      the right margin, then while writing this sentence (even!) figured the
> >      solution!  Doh!
> >
> >      >>float=left<<
> >
> >    And don't you hate it even more when the solution is flawed?
> >
> >    The trouble is, if I use >>bottom-margin=0.5em<< within the text (to
> >    control the linespacing) then the >>float=left<< on the text is useless
> >    because the >><< markup does not nest!  Aaaarrgh!
> >
> >    How can I do this????
>
> There's probably a way to do it using %bottom-margin=0.5em% instead
> of >>bottom-margin=0.5em<<, but I can't come up with an answer off
> the top of my head.
>
> If we had a "paragraph markup" in place, it would be something like:
>
>     >>float=left<<
>     P: %p bottom-margin=0.5em% The first paragraph stuff
>     P: %p bottom-margin=0.5em% The second paragraph, with 0.5em
>     between the two paragraphs
>     P: %p bottom-margin=0.5em% The third paragraph, again with 0.5em.
>
> ...but I've forgotten the latest status of the markup to use for
> marking paragraphs (and thus PmWiki doesn't have a paragraph
> markup yet).

I remember!  :-)  I think it would look like

    >>float=left<<
    %p bottom-margin=0.5em% The first paragraph stuff
    \%p bottom-margin=0.5em% The second paragraph, with 0.5em
    between the two paragraphs
    \%p bottom-margin=0.5em% The third paragraph, again with 0.5em.

Hagan