Ok so we all agreed to have > for quotes. I've added an issue in the wikimodel issue tracker for this: http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=42
As soon as it's done in wikimodel, I'll add support for it in the new rendering. Thanks -Vincent On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Vincent Massol wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that wikimodel uses the space character for representing > quotes in XWiki syntax. Here's Mikhail's explanation: > > " > These events are send by quotation blocks. > > Example: >> The first line >>> The second line >>> The third line >> The fourth line > > Gives the following sequence of events: > <beginQuotation> > <beginQuotationLine>The first line > <beginQuotation> > <beginQuotationLine>The second line </endQuotationLine> > <beginQuotationLine>The third line</endQuotationLine> > </endQuotation> > </endQuotationLine> > <beginQuotationLine>The fourth line </endQuotationLine> > </endQuotation> > > In XWiki syntax quotation lines are represented by spaces at the > beginning of each line. The quotation block is a block of lines > starting from a space-prefixed line. > Something like > . The first line > .. The second line > .. The third line > . The fourth line > (I used the "." symbol to show a space) > > In CommonSyntax quotation blocks starts with the ">" symbol as I wrote > in the example above. > " > > I don't think we've really been using leading spaces to represent > quotes, have we? > Also I don't think the space character is a good character for this. > > So my question here: > Do we want to have a syntax for quotes/block quotes? And what > character to use? > > I think we do want to have this syntax and the ">" character sounds > good to me. > > WDYT? > > Thanks > -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
