Kathryn Andersen said... > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:37:52AM +0100, marc wrote: > > Kathryn Andersen said... > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 02:34:52PM -0500, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:48:26AM +0100, marc wrote: > > > > > Tegan Dowling said... > > > > > > On 3/24/07, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It's even less obvious that something as small as a single leading > > > > space is the problem. When we explain the reason for the long lines > > > > to authors, it somewhat makes sense, but at the same time this feels > > > > to them like this is a "programmer's feature" and so perhaps the wiki > > > > really isn't for them. > > > > > > I'm wondering if there could be a compromise: rather than having a > > > *single* leading space trigger preformatting, there could be a certain > > > number of leading spaces required, like four or eight. One or two spaces > > > are likely to be accidental, eight spaces, less so. > > > > Two would be okay, imo, three at most, but eight would be far too > > cumbersome. > > Agreed that eight would be probably too cumbersome, but IMHO three is > too few. So at least four is a compromise.
I was thinking that three was a reasonable compromise. > > Since spaces seem to be the issue - I think, although I still fail to > > see the cause of the problem <Is this another issue caused by Word- > > itis?> > > No, I think it tends to be caused by cut-and-paste, where something has > one single space (or two) and gives preformatting where the person did > not intend to do so. Okay <shakes head in disbelief> > > not the issue as described by Pm - a trivial markup would be > > okay, say, ";; " (semicolon, semicolon, space), something that can be > > achieved quickly (e.g. a non-shifted, repeated key) and doesn't require > > closure. This is still a pain, though, to be honest, for other reasons. > > No, I'd rather have spaces; Oh, me too. > if I had to use markup, I'd rather go with > the existing [@ @] markup. Okay, but I absolutely do not want to have to close this particular block. > Putting ;; in front of all preformatted text > just seems far too ugly to me. Spaces are good because they're already > used in other contexts (mediawiki, txt2html) to indicate preformatted > text. Sure. So, no change would be best :-) > Though note that txt2html, at least, defaults to 5 spaces to trigger > preformatting (and this number can be changed with an option). That's simply unworkable; or, more precisely, folk would be looking to change it as soon as it was implemented. -- Cheers, Marc _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
