[Pmwiki-users] discussion on line breaks

[John Rankin]

Can we introduce something less obtrusive than [[<<]], such as [] for example?

   some things we know we know,[]
   some things we know we don't know

One of the things I do is copy emails into wiki pages, and currently any single returns get nicely wrapped on display. So I see the current behaviour as a good thing. But I also agree that we need a way to avoid [[<<]] if possible.

I lean towards:

   [\
   some things we know we know,
   some things we know we don't know
   \]

and/or:

   some things we know we know,[]
   some things we know we don't know

both producing:

   some things we know we know,
   some things we know we don't know

with:

   some things we know we know,
   some things we know we don't know

producing:

   some things we know we know, some things we know we don't know

JR

On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:02:32AM +1200, John Rankin wrote:
> 
> This works for me. It preserves backward compatibility and consistency with other wikis. It invites the author to be explicit. However, I can see that a poetry author would prefer to write:
> 
>   each line
>   as it comes to mind
>   without worrying about markup

Actually, it occurs in more than just poetry--I've run into several
situations with it.  For example, the PmWiki.QuickLinks box also has 
the same problem--it has to specify a bunch of [[<<]] in order to 
get each of the entries to appear on different lines.  Others are
running into similar problems when they want to create a list of
links in a side panel on a page somewhere but not use a bullet list
or definition list.

Pm

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