On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 15:44, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is our last chance to change this behavior. We've found several
> places where having meaningful spaces are counter-productive:
>
> * in table cells since we can't align table anymore. For example:
>
> |= column1              |= column2
> | this is some para  | second column
> | hello                        | world
>
> (not sure this will be rendered nicely in mail but you see what I mean)
>
> * in scripts since having meaningful spaces prevents us from aligning
> velocity or groovy scripts. For ex we can't write:
>
> #if (....)
>     #if (...)
>         do something
>     # end
> #end
>
> To see a better example have a look at http://tinyurl.com/ahz669
>
> What I think users real want are meaningful new lines but I see cons
> overweighting pros for having meaningful white spaces. Thus I'm think
> we should strip whitespaces at beginning and end of lines including
> for line breaks.
> I'm slightly less sure for multiple spaces between words but even
> there I think we could strip them have users use {{{ }}} to put a non
> breaking space for ex (or introduce a {{space/}} macro or another
> special syntax although I'd rather we don't introduce a new syntax).
>

+0 for making multiples spaces not meaningfull

but we do it I would prefer ~(space) for non breaking space, it sounds
more logical and nicer

> WDYT?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
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