[pmwiki-users] name for [@...@]

[Petko Yotov]

Peter Bowers writes:
> I note on http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/MarkupMasterIndex that
> [@...@] is listed both under paragraph blocks (called "preformatted
> block") and under character format (called "escaped code").  (Whereas
> [=...=] is listed only under the character format as "escaped text".)
>
> I'm wondering (1) if it's supposed to be in both

Yes. If it contains a new line, [@...@] becomes <pre> and whitespace is  
preserved, if not, it is wrapped in <code>. In both cases the markup is not  
processed. The other one, [=...=] is just returned as-is without processing  
the markup and without wrapping it in tags.

> and (2) which is the preferred name...

I don't know. :-)

Petko