[pmwiki-users] Some experiments with whitespace indentation

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 10:29:57PM -0400, Neil Herber wrote:
> At 2005-10-17  01:58 PM +1300, John Rankin is rumored to have said:
> >5. Just an observation -- matching the exact number of spaces
> >   seems a bit fragile; for example this is incorrect:
> 
> This is more than just an observation - it is a massive understatement.
> 
> Relying on white space for any kind of markup (indents, list 
> components, or preformatted text)  strikes me as one of the weakest 
> parts of PmWiki.

Well, we aren't really *relying* on whitespace for indents here;
there are still other mechanisms available to achieve the same
results (most notably "-->").  I just know that there's a
fairly large pool of authors (myself included) who find that
whitespace is an incredibly natural and elegant mechanism for 
indicating indents, and other markups seem like a kludge.

But all of this can certainly be left as an option to be
enabled by the wiki administrator.

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