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On Wednesday, May 13, 2020 at 5:02:24 AM UTC+3, TonyM wrote: > > Folks, > > I just found a solution to an issue which bugs a lot of new and > experienced users alike, many come to be happy by adapting to it, however > when they bring text in from elsewhere the issue rears its head again. > > *Problem:* Consider Source Text as follows in a tiddler > line a > > line b > line c > > > Line d > > Gets displayed as > line a > > line b line c > > Line d > That is the author or source of text requires two enters resulting in a > blank line before it is treated as a new paragraph, other wise the line is > appended to the previous line. > > See also that the source text has two line between line c and line b, yet > rendering collapses this to one line, this will not change with this > solution > > Be aware there are good reasons for this behaviour and attempts at fixing > it have tended to be cumbersome. > > As I posted in this thread Preserving paragraphs when pasting into TW > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/TX1VfRRFmhE/qzhN7TePBQAJ> (answer > reproduced here) I think I have found a useful solution that can be applied > in a few different ways. > > > - This solution also allows wikitext markup to be applied to pasted > text, allowing subsequent markup. > > *Background 1st solution* > If you wrap a block of text in a section or other html blocks and use a > style to use the same white spacing as pre you will get text that behaves > like was intended in the source text. > Using a blank line after the first html tag ensures any wikitext markup is > honored. > > <section style="white-space: pre;"> > blank line here > !Marked > > Your pasted text Wikitext markup if desired > </section> > > *2nd Solution* > Of course you can create a css class eg "retain" and apply it like this as > well (define in a tiddler tagged $:/tags/Stylesheet > eg > .retain { white-space: pre; } > > > @@.retain > ;No Blank line needed for wiki text > Some text > > some more text > @@ > You can leave off the closing "@@" with no apparent ill effect > > > - The above is honored when transcluding this tidder > > *3rd Solution* > > There may be better ways but if on a given tiddler you wish to have a > class applied to the whole content create a class field and give it the > value of the class in the following format. > > class=classname and the whole tiddler content will have class applied > > However the class is applied at the very last moment, so the preview > window does not apply it, and the rendered tiddler is wrapped in one or > more `<p>` tags. > So let us define a class that uses the P selector to target the resulting > paragraphs > .keep P { white-space: pre; border: 2px solid blue; } > > and set the class field to keep > > So the whole tiddler will honor this formatting, good for pasted content > with line breaks considered paragraph breaks, and still permits wikitext. > > - In this case unlike 1st and 2nd solutions this class is not honored > in transclusions, which may a be good or bad > - Use this to fix it, ie add the retain class to the section > > @@.retain {{transcluded}}@@ > > *In closing* > Some of us may consider this a substantial improvement in usability others > will see little or no value. > > - What do you think? > - Have you other ideas? > - Feedback please > > Regards > Tony(m) > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/03dcbbb2-8a1b-4cf6-b776-ab3586157aa8%40googlegroups.com.
