[pmwiki-users] Fwd: RFC: Core candidate offerings

[John Rankin]

On Saturday, 1 April 2006 2:42 PM, Ben Wilson <dausha at gmail.com> wrote:
>First, the predominate behavior of authors of electronic content is to
delineate paragraphs via white space...
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I support all Ben says except...
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>Two paragraphs _not_ separated by whitespace (on screen) is a
>deviation from the normal behavior. This can be remedied via
>stylesheets without resorting to changing markup. I have demonstrated
>this before--although it might have been better to have p
>{padding-top: 1.5em;} so the deviation could be implimented in one
>%style% of the deviant paragraph rather than in the deviant and its
>predecessor.

Could you just clarify this point. If you mean one would write 
something like in pmwiki markup:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin quis lacus in 
magna vulputate imperdiet. Phasellus dapibus imperdiet neque. Donec nisi. 
Suspendisse potenti. Duis in eros. Mauris convallis convallis ipsum. Duis 
lectus urna, feugiat nec, adipiscing id, accumsan at, nunc. Praesent et libero. 

%block class=deviant%Morbi laoreet pede a velit dapibus consequat. 
Quisque non neque. Fusce mauris. Suspendisse sed dui. Duis faucibus. 
Vestibulum ultrices. Nam vestibulum, eros ut dignissim lobortis, neque enim 
volutpat eros, quis scelerisque magna felis ac nisl. Fusce sodales porta nisi. 

To produce html:

<p class='normal'>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Proin quis lacus in 
magna vulputate imperdiet. Phasellus dapibus imperdiet neque. Donec nisi. 
Suspendisse potenti. Duis in eros. Mauris convallis convallis ipsum. Duis 
lectus urna, feugiat nec, adipiscing id, accumsan at, nunc. Praesent et libero. </p>
<p class='deviant'>Morbi laoreet pede a velit dapibus consequat. 
Quisque non neque. Fusce mauris. Suspendisse sed dui. Duis faucibus. 
Vestibulum ultrices. Nam vestibulum, eros ut dignissim lobortis, neque enim 
volutpat eros, quis scelerisque magna felis ac nisl. Fusce sodales porta nisi. </p>

Then I agree with this too.

OTOH, what, in your proposal, would this wiki markup produce:

* item 1

* item 2
* item 3

* item 4

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.

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JR
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John Rankin