[pmwiki-users] Single Space breaks wrap on entire page

[Waylan Limberg]

On 9/21/05, Russell Bailey <russell-pmwiki at saberpunk.net> wrote:
> Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>
> >On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 09:32:34AM -0400, Waylan Limberg wrote:
> >
> >
> >>>If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm open for them.  :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Personally, having just one space affect the formatting is a little
> >>much. Maybe a paragraph should begin with at least four spaces before
> >>getting the pre treatment (kind of like you need four or more dashes
> >>(-----) to make a horizontal line, but not less).
> >>
> >>
> >
> >This is a good point, but changing PmWiki's default here will
> >absolutely break a lot of existing sites that depend on a single
> >space for preformatted text.

Yeah, I figured as much. Thought I'd share anyway. I think I'll start
adding that as a local customization myself. Seeing as I'm not to good
with regex, could someone post a quick and easy way to require four
spaces?

> >
> >So, requiring multiple spaces for pre treatment would have to be
> >left for a local customization.
> >
> >I wonder if there's something that we could do with <div> and
> >CSS positioning here... i.e., if we enclosed <pre> somehow
> >in a <div> that eliminates the width problem...?
> >
> >

Well, the whitespace property
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/text.html#white-space-prop) is the one
that controls such things, but there is no way to 'turn on' wraping
without disabiling the other features of pre. Setting
'whitespace:normal' would work for Sivakatirswami; basicaly causing
the browser to treat the <pre> as a <p>. However, when you want
<pre>'s to acts as <pre>'s, then you get nowrap. Which means you have
to have php add in the line breaks for you.

> Maybe a div with its overflow set to scroll,  making the pre text
> basically its own little scrollable frame?
>

Yeah, overflow would work, and you'd have to use scroll. The thing is,
that could result in a lot of horitontal scrolling. Besides, it makes
the page ugly IMHO. Who wants their pages littered with scrolling
windows. Overflow:hidden would work to, but you'd have no way of
viewing the unwraped text that runs past the left edge of the div.

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Waylan Limberg
waylan at gmail.com