Patrick R. Michaud said... > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 01:07:50PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 05:58:51PM +0000, J. Meijer wrote: > > > I am talking mainly about defaults. The (:nolinebreaks:) is the > > > pmwiki default. I think it would be cleaner to have this changed. > > > [...] > > > So I challenge: what problem does automatic line-joining really > > > solve? I may be able to challenge those that think it is required. > > > > This particular issue (linebreaks vs. nolinebreaks as default) has > > been discussed _many_ times here in the past, with about equal numbers > > of people arguing for each side. Proponents of each side have > > had extremely good and valid reasons for their position. > > Just to add another data point to this discussion: The > WikiCreole markup standard had (:linebreaks:) as the default > behavior up to version 0.3 of the standard. > > However, Creole 0.4 appears to be **reversing** the standard > in this respect, so that line joining (i.e., (:nolinebreaks:) ) > is now the default for Creole markup. I think that's a pretty > strong argument in favor of keeping PmWiki's existing > "line-joining by default" behavior -- here we had a group > that was originally defaulting to linebreaks, but based on > experience has decided to switch. > > The pros/cons that Creole considered in making this switch are > at http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/ChangeLinebreakMarkupProposal .
This is terrific news. I'll take Creole a bit more seriously now. I particularly liked the cited disadvantage of the change: - requires additional markup in addresses and poetry Yup, them's some showstoppers! -- Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
