Hi, On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Marius Dumitru Florea < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Guillaume, > > Guillaume Lerouge wrote: > > Hi devs, > > > > right now we need to hit enter twice in a row to create a new paragraph. > > Although I strongly pushed this implementation back in the day, it is > > proving to be counter-intuitive for almost all users. After a review of a > > number of other tools (including OpenOffice & online text editors) & > reading > > of posts on the topic, I came to the conclusion that we'd better come > back > > to the previous behavior for the enter key: > > > > - Hitting enter once creates a new paragraph > > - Hitting caps + enter creates a new line in the same paragraph > > I'm in favor of this behavior too. Having line breaks inside a paragraph > is not very common IMO. When pressing Enter the user usually wants to > get out of or split the current block of text. I think the current > behavior was inspired by the XWiki 2.0 syntax where you have to leave an > empty line (thus press Enter twice) between blocks of text like > paragraphs. But the WYSIWYG editor should be independent of the > underlying Wiki syntax used for storing the edited document. > > > > > When writing, users tend to write a number of sentences (most of the time > > between 3 and 7 of them) and then hit enter to create a new paragraph. > The > > issue sometimes encountered is that an user writes a single line, then > hits > > enter to find out that a lot of spacing is entered between both lines. > This > > issue can easily be fixed through CSS in the default XWiki Enterprise > > distribution (we could use OOo as a source of inspiration for the > respective > > line heights between 2 lines & 2 paragraphs - right now I'd say the > height > > between 2 paragraphs is a bit too big). > > I don't find the spacing between paragraphs as big. But maybe users feel > different. If we consider this definition > http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=paragraph then I think it's > a good thing to have ideas well separated. I guess we'll have to play with CSS a bit to decide on an optimal spacing. > > Additionally, this would "fix" the "issue" currently encountered by users > > when they input 2 lines and try to make one of them a title: > > > > - User inputs line of text, hits enter, inputs 2nd line > > - User puts caret at the end of first line and selects "Title 1" > > - Both lines are turned into a title -> weird > > > > This behavior is unexpected from an end-user point of view and would be > > fixed by coming back to the previousbehavior for the enter key. > > > > WDYT? > > We can have it for XE 1.8.3 if no one's against it. I shouldn't take too > much to revert. That would be great + it's on the curriki bug list I think (see http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-3251 ) Thanks, Guillaume > Thanks, > Marius > > > > > Guillaume > > > > PS: I'm really sorry about the additional work incurred by my initial > lack > > of understanding of the role of paragraphs > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
