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

christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 17:52:46 CST 2007


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, marc wrote:

> Patrick R. Michaud said...
>>
>> 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.
>
> As long as %clear% will 'work' without any text following it. For
> example, <!--PageText--> followed by a footer that depends on the clear/
> [[<<]] in the pages where required. I know it can be done in other ways
> (e.g. <div style='clear:both;'><div>, say), but [[<<]] has its uses.


Maybe %clear% should also be used for forcing (or suggesting?) a page 
break?   Sometimes I print wiki pages, and I often get orphans etc. In 
those cases it'd be nice to be able to force a page break a bit earlier in 
the page.

/Christian

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