[pmwiki-users] formatting, indent

[H. Fox]

On 13 Feb 2006 11:40:45 +1300, John Rankin <john.rankin at affinity.co.nz> wrote:
> On Monday, 13 February 2006 8:00 AM, H. Fox <haganfox at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> >That begs another question: What about a lone '+' on a line?
>
> Presumably we'd get
> <p class='foo'></p>

Yes.

> This all seems very reasonable and coherent to me. Thinking
> about possible markups, another option would be (by analogy
> with Q: and A:
>
> P:I'm a paragraph.
>
> This would avoid the "what does '++' mean?" issue.

It replaces it with a "what does 'P:P:' mean?" issue.  :-)

> For other
> start of line markups, character repeats have an obvious
> meaning. In a sense, "I'm a new paragraph" is more like
> Q: and A: than it is like * or !.
>
> Just a thought.

A good one.

The equivalent for '++' would be this, right?

    P:
    P:I'm a paragraph below an empty paragraph.

Coming up with the appropriate markup seems to be a difficult task.

Hagan