[pmwiki-users] linebreaks and Creole

[marc]

Patrick R. Michaud said...
> 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.

As a LaTeX user '\\' is second nature for me, so I've no problem with 
that. I've occasionally thought that it would be interesting to have 
more LaTeX environment-like markup for PmWiki. But that's certainly not 
a request, not is it a shortcoming in PmWiki, since divs/blocks and 
wikistyles give us plenty to be going on with.

-- 
Cheers,
Marc