Hi, On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi devs, > > We have to make a decision about that. > > So here are the proposals: > > 1) remove the block leading and trainling spaces > * The main goal is to make source formatting for tables for example > more readable > The main effect of this will be that the WYSIWYG will have to insert ~<space> when the user presses tab right ? > 2) make the spaces inside paragraph non meaningfull > * Meaning an HTML like behavior where multiple spaces give one space > > 3) in case of 1) or 2) use ~<space> as non breaking space > > WDYT ? > > +0,5 for 1) it's not critical for me but i'm not against it and we > already decided to remove space before list item, headers etc. +0 for 1) > -0 for 2) I don't see the need for that and it's a lot easier for the > parser to make spaces meaningfull (what to do when you have "test ** > bold**" and things like that) -0 for 2) > +1 for 3) +1 for 3) Guillaume > 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). > > > > WDYT? > > > > Thanks > > -Vincent > > http://xwiki.com > > http://xwiki.org > > http://massol.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > devs mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > > > > > -- > Thomas Mortagne > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Guillaume Lerouge Product Manager - XWiki Skype ID : wikibc http://guillaumelerouge.com/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
