Hi Stephan I think there's an easier approach to this particular problem: a new parse rule could match /#\n/ and emit a <br> element. In earlier discussions the backslash has been floated for this purpose, which I think I might prefer.
Best wishes Jeremy. On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Stephan Hradek <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Jeremy! > > While I was creating a new documentation today for work, I again came to > the point, where I really wanted a linebreak in a list. Using <br> is okay > for me, but still there is the problem that those lines will get pretty > long. I'm not allowed to enter a real linebreak as the list will then be > closed. > > So I came back to this idea and I'm wondering whether or not the > following, very generic approach could be implemented. I'm more than > willing zo do that, but I think I need to be shown to my starting place. > > So this is the idea: > > Similar to the \define pragma, I'd like to have a tiddler specific pragma > defining some "pre-processor" search and replace terms. As an example: > > \replace /#\n/<br>/ > > This should replace any "#" followed by an line-end with a <br>. So there > wouldn't be any additional rendering included. It would be a pure > pre-processing. As a result, this: > > # line item 1 > # line item 2# > continuation of line item 2 > # line item 3 > > Would be seen by the TW render process as > > # line item 1 > # line item 2<br>continuation of line item 2 > # line item 3 > > and rendered as such. > > Maybe it's a too stupid or too complex idea? > > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
