[Pmwiki-users] Another idea before bedtime...

[Patrick R. Michaud]

My biggest concern about using '\\' as a break markup is that I think it could
occur naturally in too many contexts (e.g., regexps, latex) where it's not 
intended to be a break.  Also, sometimes people will want to generate a 
line break but can't do it at the end of a line (e.g., in a table cell).

Plus, the whole issue of how newlines should be honored is still an open
question (that I hope to largely resolve and make some decisions on prior
to 0.6.0 being released).

Pm


On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:18:01AM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I just added some text to a wiki page and noticed that the perhaps most 
> common use I have for [[<<]] is in markup like this:
> 
> 	:boost: Could someone add an explanation plz? -- Christian [[<<]] \
> 	Is the URI http://www.boost.org ?
> 
> I.e. I use first a simple break line, directly followed by a line 
> continuation character. This is actually a bit stupid IMO.... what I 
> really want to do is force a line break without leaving the current 
> paragraph style.
> 
> So here's another suggestion based on '\\'... skip the break paragraph 
> thing (i.e. leave that as [[<<]]) and let '\\' be newline, and '\' be line 
> continuation. Then the markup could look like this:
>         :boost: Could someone add an explanation plz? -- Christian \\ \
>         Is the URI http://www.boost.org ?
> 
> or like this:
>         :boost: Could someone add an explanation plz? -- Christian \\\
>         Is the URI http://www.boost.org ?
> 
> but both actually represent two 'tokens', not one.
> 
> 
> Oh, and why do I need the combo [[<<]] \   well, I think the need shows 
> up when you're using a text editor (in my case Emacs with pmwiki-mode) to 
> edit the page... because you like to keep the markup formatted, just like 
> you would for source code, i.e. it's easier to read => it's faster to work 
> with. 
> 
> /Christian
> 
> PS.
> Some statistics for my site (427 pages) of frequence of different markup:
> 
>   Markup etc	N.o pages	Comment
>   [[<<]]	81		
>   \		63
>   \\		6		(4 appear in regexps, 2 in latex examples)
> 
>   [[<<]]\	16
>   [[<<]] \	40
> 
> So as you can see, I do use [[<<]]\ or [[<<]] \ quite frequently.
> 
> I added the results here:
> 
> http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki?pagename=Development.MarkupFrequency
> 
> It would be interesting if other people added simiarl statistics.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Dr. Christian Ridderstr?m, +46-8-768 39 44       http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
> 
> 
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