Patrick R. Michaud said... > I'd like to avoid the need for the explanation -- especially because > the outcome is extremely disproportionate to the cause. Most authors' > first encounter with the leading space rule comes from entering > a line of text with a leading space, which then results in the page > being rendered extremely wide (with a horizontal scrollbar). Worse, > it's not just the one line of text that is wide, but *all* of the lines > (including those without spaces) appear wide. Nothing about this > suggests "preformatted text" is causing the problem, all that an > author sees is that the page has suddenly become very wide, and it's > not obvious why. (The change to a monospace font is too subtle to > be obvious.)
Thanks for the reasoned explanation, Patrick. > I can even set it up so that we have a directive similar to > (:linebreaks:)/(:nolinebreaks:), so that individual pages can > change the default for the page (or for sections of the page). I'm not personally interested in a directive for this. All I need is the ability to retain the existing leading space syntax, which is a key function of PmWiki. If I have to start switching it on and off, then it's a hindrance and barrier to use. However, I am concerned that this is the thin end of the wedge for complete removal, and the comments of others has made me more than a little nervous about where PmWiki is heading. > > To me, this is a solution looking for a problem. I'm completely > > unconvinced that the change is necessary. > > Fair enough. I've had a lot of experience with people being > confused by the leading whitespace rule, and confusion is > often an indication that a change is necessary. It's also often about education. However, when folk are unwilling - or unable - to accept the needs of others (or facts), then they sometimes appeal to change, often subjectively - although, thankfully, you've provided a reason that seemed to elude some others. -- Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
