[pmwiki-users] linebreaks and Creole

christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com
Sat Jan 20 18:00:27 CST 2007


On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:21:39PM -0000, marc wrote:
>> Patrick R. Michaud said...
>>> Just to add another data point to this discussion:  The
>>> WikiCreole markup standard had (:linebreaks:) as the default
>>> behavior up to version 0.3 of the standard.
>>>
>>
>> This is terrific news. I'll take Creole a bit more seriously now.
>>
>> I particularly liked the cited disadvantage of the change:
>>
>>   - requires additional markup in addresses and poetry
>>
>> Yup, them's some showstoppers!
>
> Actually, the need for linebreaks in addresses and poetry is exactly 
> what led me to using '\\' to mean 'line break' -- it's visually pretty 
> clean.

IIRC, I suggested it from what I've seen in LaTeX, so that should get its 
share of the blame. OTOH, LaTeX might have been using it for poems :-)

/C

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