[Pmwiki-users] Re: rendering question about lists (somewhat important)
Christian Ridderström
chr
Tue Feb 3 14:55:46 CST 2004
On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Reimer Behrends wrote:
> That tends to be a sore spot with me, mostly because I had to deal with
> too many Word documents where the authors were using blank lines to add
> inter-paragraph spacing. (Such a document is essentially unmaintainable,
> because the design decisions regarding spacing are not localized in a
> single place.)
You might want to check out LyX. It follows a "What You See Is What You
Mean" paradigm instead of WYSIWYGI, and generally encourages you to
separate content and layout. (It's "sort of" based on LaTeX though,
although I don't know if that's still valid when exporting e.g. DocBook)
I can personally recommend LyX, having written all my papers and thesis
using it since -97.
> Off the top of my head, I can't think of any source that advocates not
> visually separating lists from the surrounding paragraphs.
On-topic :-) Personally, I *sometimes* want a vertical layout like this:
This is sort of a list title:
* item
* item
The next paragraph...
and the current default separation looks too big to me, but this is just a
*sometimes* personal preference.
> > To me it's much nicer and more natural if vertical space appears only
> > where one was explicitly placed in the markup.
>
> That is where we agree to disagree, I think. No offense meant by any of
> the above, just an explanation of a different position.
I guess I'm somewhere in the middle... in the best of all worlds I'd
prefer separating content - markup, but that doesn't seem to work in
practice when we want a simple system :-(
Oh well, now you got some more opinions ;-)
/Christian
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