[pmwiki-users] leading spaces switch for 2.2.0 (somewhat important)
Martin Fick
mogulguy at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 23 23:19:48 CDT 2007
I'm not a markup guy, so if that makes sense, go for
it.
One question though, on top of having the option to
disable it, how hard would it be to write a converter
from the old style to whatever replaces it? It's one
thing to turn off a new feature for a while, but
eventually sites will have to bite the bullet. A
converter sure would seem usefull. Maybe this could
become a converter that evolves and could convert any
major markup change that you decide to implement (or
have already implemented)? Simply invoke it with the
specific markup switch to convert:
--leadingSpacePreformattedText
(yikes, someone might think I'm a java programmer, ;)
but in this case the long syntax seems appropriate)
My 2 cents,
-Martin
--- "Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> Based on a number of recent events, I'm thinking of
> switching the
> PmWiki default in 2.2.0 so that leading whitespace
> characters
> no longer produce preformatted text. It would of
> course be
> available as an option for those who want it, or for
> those
> who have sites that have a lot of preformatted text
> based
> on the leading whitespace rule.
>
> Yes, this would mean substantially fixing up many
> existing
> preformatted sections of the PmWiki docs, and yes,
> I'm up for
> doing that if we decide to make this switch.
>
> This would not completely supplant the
> LiteralWhitespace
> recipe, as this only deals with removing the special
>
> interpretation of leading spaces as preformatted
> text.
>
> I've started a page for voting at
>
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/VoteOnLeadingWhitespace
> .
> Discussion can take place either on the mailing list
> or at
>
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/VoteOnLeadingWhitespace-Talk
> .
>
> Thanks in advance for opinions and comments!
>
> Pm
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