Very helpful explanation, Charlie, thanks! On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, 8:18 PM Charlie Veniot <[email protected]> wrote:
> G'day David, > > I'm thinking what you're running into is the nature of HTML, and not so > much the nature of TiddlyWiki. > > In HTML, to have the following appear as separate lines, you might have > > Line of text<br> > Line of text<br> > Line of text<br> > > or each line of text wrapped in HTML elements that force <br> to happen, > for example: > > <p>Line of text</p> > <p>Line of text</p> > <p>Line of text</p> > > To avoid all of these HTML tags, wikitext from various wikis (I think) > will take two carriage returns as meaning a line break. That shelters folk > from having to deal with HTML tags so they can focus on just the content. > Wikitext is not WYSIWYG. WYSIWYG, I'm thinking, would be really messy, or > have loads of potential for messy. Having the editor side-by-side with > preview is a good compromise, I think. > > Aside: Often, a bunch of stuff that ought to be displayed on one line, > there is an advantage of having that long line broken up into different > lines in the editor, to make editing the long line easier (kind of like > chunking the elements of that long line of text. > > When one does want to get a bit more control formatting, then that control > comes in via HTML (and/or CSS for some real formatting power.) > > Well, I didn't get any training on any of that. Just my yellow-belt > understanding from observations. Food for fodder... > > On Saturday, July 10, 2021 at 8:27:39 PM UTC-3 David Gifford wrote: > >> >> So if I type >> >> Line of text >> Line of text >> Line of text >> >> It will show in view mode as >> >> Line of textLine of textLine of text >> >> Unless I separate each line with a second carriage return or a <br> >> >> But if I type >> >> <<macrocall>> >> <<macrocall2>> >> <<macrocall3>> >> >> it renders as >> >> Text of macrocall >> >> Text of macrocall2 >> >> Text of macrocall3 >> >> Unless I change it to >> >> <span> <<macrocall>> <<macrocall2>> <<macrocall3>> </span> >> >> In the first example, lines get smooshed together unless I do something >> unnatural to separate them. In the second example, macro calls get pulled >> apart from each other unless I smoosh them together in edit mode in a >> visually unappealing way. >> >> What does TiddlyWiki have against single-spacing? Why does it either jam >> items together or pull them apart? What if I want >> >> Text of macrocall >> Text of macrocall >> Text of macrocall >> >> With no space in between them? But I don't want edit mode to be illegible >> with macrocalls all piled up on each other? >> >> Okay, rant over! Feels good to get that off my chest... :-) >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/RoTA7OJFMMg/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/df1a00ac-3895-4061-a228-c72fe49990d3n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/df1a00ac-3895-4061-a228-c72fe49990d3n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CANE%3DBFJyi3q%3DxMX3eQNGj1U4H8DWC1mJpwfQhSPN3R2N4mp8jA%40mail.gmail.com.
