[Pmwiki-users] discussion on line breaks

Dawn Green green
Thu Jul 17 08:16:47 CDT 2003


I like this idea the best.  It covers both a large block and two lines of text
using the same markup.  And I don't mind the [] at all.

Dawn

"Patrick R. Michaud" <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:

> Another possibility:  Have a markup sequence that indicates that
> linebreaks are to be honored up through the next paragraph or
> block-level formatting element.  I'll use [] in the example below,
> even though that's probably not the best choice...
> 
>     [] some things we know we know,
>     some things we know we don't know,
>     some things we wish we didn't know.
> 
>     some things we know we know,
>     some things we know we don't know,
>     some things we wish we didn't know.
> 
> resulting in
> 
>     some things we know we know,
>     some things we know we don't know,
>     some things we wish we didn't know.
> 
>     some things we know we know, some things we know we 
>     don't know, some things we wish we didn't know.
> 
> We could require that [] be at the beginning of the line in order to
> have this effect, or we could allow it to occur anywhere within a line.
> 
> Since [] might not be a good markup for this, how about [>>]?  1/2 :-)
> 
> Pm
> 
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