[pmwiki-users] Announce: Slender, pmwiki-based wiki making a fresh start

christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 16:27:00 CST 2007


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 04:17:07PM -0500, Henrik wrote:
>>    Re [[<<]]
>>
>>    FWIW I use:
>>
>>    (:block-divider:) and (:block-spacer:) directives
>
> I hadn't really thought about using directives, but that's
> definitely a possibility.

I was going to suggest one of:

 	[[\\]]		(similar to \\, but not the same)
 	(:br:)
 	(:nl:)		(maybe already taken for something?)
 	(:clear=all:), (:clear=both:), (:clear=left:), (:clear=right:)

...
> ...there are times when someone might want to specify a line break 
> directly in the middle of a markup line.

I often want to do that inside table cells.

> But I think that nowadays the only time that [[<<]] is used is to skip 
> below any floating elements.  Perhaps a wikistyle would serve the same 
> purpose-- i.e.  %clear% would cause the current block to appear below 
> any floating content?
>
>    %rfloat% Attach:floatingimage.jpg
>    This text appears to the left
>    of the floating image.
>
>    %clear% This text appears below the floating image.

Shouldn't that be %clear=all%, possibly with %clear% as shorthand for 
%clear=all%? (Aren't there several options?)

/Christian

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