Well, thank you all for helping me figure out a solution to this, and sparking up a bit of discussion on this behavior.
I think it should be easier and better documented for the htmlpnewline attribute or something. I appreciate this option being available, even if it's *not* the default, I just think it might be more appreciated if it was easier to find :P Paul Gupta On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 17:42, Patrick R. Michaud <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:33:37PM -0500, Randy Brown wrote: >> I didn't realize that legacy-compatibility is the main reason the default is >> nolinebreaks. > > It's not simply legacy compatibility... nolinebreaks is also my preference. > This setting is also the default per the WikiCreole 1.0 standard > (http://wikicreole.org/), as well as being the standard that Wikipedia > (MediaWiki) uses for its markup. > > In the case of WikiCreole, there was a very long discussion arguing the merits > of both sides before finally selecting on the behavior that PmWiki and other > wikis tend to use by default. > See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Talk.ChangeLinebreakMarkupProposal . > > In short, I don't expect us to be changing the default setting anytime > soon. I recognize that there are many sites that would prefer the other > setting to be the default and they have very good reasons for wanting that > default... which is why $HTMLPNewline exists. > > If there's enough demand to warrant adding a (:resetlinebreaks:) > markup, I'm not very opposed to doing so. > > Pm > _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
