On Feb 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > 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
Do you have another solution or does it mean that you don't think it's that important to be able to align scripts and tables? > but we do it I would prefer ~(space) for non breaking space, it sounds > more logical and nicer Yes good idea Thanks -Vincent _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
