[pmwiki-users] RFC: Core candidate offerings

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Fri Mar 31 14:14:02 CST 2006


On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 12:48:09PM -0600, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> > 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.

The biggest issue with the idea of %p% as a structural markup is
that all of the other instances of %% are style markup.  Put another
way, we don't have equivalent %li%, %td%, %div%, etc.

It can be done easily enough ("any markup line beginning with %p is
a new paragraph"), but it just seems terribly inconsistent.

Pm




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