On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

"Text indented with spaces no longer generates preformatted text.": I've already remarked that it will be easy to disable this sometime in 2.2.0-beta, I just haven't had a chance to implement it yet. I'm not entirely against having leading-spaces-preformat disabled by default (instead of enabled as it is now), such that it's a local customization option, but my reading of past discussions on this topic has been that there are roughly equal numbers of people on either side of the issue.

FWIW, I think it should probably be disabled by default (although the migration will be a bit of a bother).

It's also good to know that today it's already possible to do:

        >>white-space=pre%
        Pre -formatted    text
        >><<

if the 'leading-space-causes-preformat' is removed.


Beyond that, being somewhat consistent with other markup systems is probably a good idea, and I don't know of any markups that do headings along the lines of the proposed !> (heading indent) and <! (heading outdent) syntax. I think many authors would think the end result looks pretty weird. For example, consider the following markup:

   ! heading 1
   !> heading 2
   ! heading 3
   ! heading 4

In looking at this it's not at all obvious to me that heading 3
and heading 4 are at the same level as heading 2 (not heading 1).
Also, once I'm nested two or three levels in, how do I get back
to the top level in one jump?

Hmm... I have to agree that I thought the heading levels would be:

        1. Heading 1
        1.1. Heading 2
        2. Heading 3
        3. Heading 4.

But I really like the idea of being able to do a relative heading... Perhaps it'd be better with a separate directive for changing/setting heading depth, i.e.

        ! heading 1
        (:heading-depth +1:)
        ! heading 2
        ! heading 3
        ! heading 4

This would work well with:

        ! Some heading

        (:heading-depth +1:)(:include SomePage:)(:heading-depth =0:)

        ! Another heading

best regards
/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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