[pmwiki-users] How do I control $HTMLVSpace?

[John Rankin]

Is there a way to ask pmwiki to insert something other 
than $HTMLVSpace to space out a list?

* item 1

* item 2

* item 3

The reason I ask is that when typesetting a page for printing, 
we don't normally require $HTMLVSpace, so all the resulting 
<p class='vspace'> tags get removed. This means we lose the 
normal way to space out a list. What I'd like to do is ask 
pmwiki to insert a different spacing variable when processing 
list markup.

Is this possible and if so how do I do it? Or is there a 
better way to do this, like insert an attribute on the
item's xml tag to indicate spacing is required -- that is,
somehow ask pmwiki to turn the above into (for example)

<item skip='big'>text</item>

rather than 

<item>text<p skip='big'></p></item>

If necessary, I can possibly do a post-processing match and
replace, but it would be nice if there were a better way.

Any ideas?
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JR
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John Rankin