[pmwiki-users] RFC: Core candidate offerings

[Dominique Faure]

On 3/31/06, Jonathan Scott Duff <duff at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:19:58PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > Actually, it's come up in a number of different contexts and
> > email messages.  At present, there's not a way to have a
> > center-justified paragraph followed immediately by a left-justified
> > paragraph (i.e., without an intervening vertical space).
>
> Oh, so this is more about eliminating the vspace than creating new
> paragraphs ...
>
> > Others have also asked about the possibility of styling
> > paragraphs with first-line text indents; this is another case
> > where having an explicit "paragraph" markup would be useful
> > to avoid the vertical space between paragraphs:
> >
> >     %define=p text-indent:40px apply=p%
>
> So ... what's the problem with making something like %p% part of pmwiki?
> As I read your #2, \-at-the-beginning-of-line is that markup except
> you'd have to do the indent separately.
>
> Consider this a vote in favor of creating a "paragraph" markup (using
> any sane syntax) and a vote against making a leading % create a new
> paragraph.
>

Anyway, why not considering the %p% style definition as a special one,
like the %width=...% and %height=...% attributes could be with image
tags?

Dom