On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:37:07AM -0600, Nelson Ingersoll wrote: > Please forgive me for being new. I'm not normally this perfectly ignorant. > > I'm struggling with simple markups. So I refer to the 'Basic Editing' wiki > and see things which I try. Unfortunately there are problems. These > problems befuddle me as I think I have read the documentation correctly and > am applying the markups correctly. Until suddenly I had an epiphany of > understanding. *Blank lines are your friends! Use them often!* > > Advice I would toss out to New Users like me: > > If something isn't displaying the way you think it should > and the markups all look good, put some *blank lines* > into your page! Not the displayable blank lines using > markups '\\' and '\\\'. Rather, blank lines like > > this and that > > In some ways it is helpful to think of a blank line as a > terminator of the last markup instruction.
I think the more important message is that authors should use '\\' and '\\\' very sparingly -- i.e., only when the author needs to insert a blank line in the middle of a paragraph or heading. Otherwise, the proper way to generate vertical whitespace in PmWiki is to use blank lines. I notice a lot of authors using \\ to generate blank lines even in normal text, and I'm not sure what leads people to believe that necessary. Borrowing from your example: > ----- > Markup that looks good to a novice; '''AND IS!''' > ----- > > >>center<< > [+++Centered Three+++] > >><< > \\ > > !!Heading Three\\ > > [[Path:pub/doc3.pdf | Document3]]\\\ None of the \\'s are necessary here -- omit them and you get the correct results. > ---- > > >>center<< > [+++Centered Four+++] > >><< > > !!Heading Four\\ > > [[Path:pub/doc4.pdf | Document4]]\\ Same here -- the \\'s can (and should) be omitted. Pm _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
