Hi Richard This is useful to know. Perhaps the information about this can be amended to add a note about the care needed in applying such formatting (and perhaps even adding use of the <pre> </pre> tags as an alternative). https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hard%20Linebreaks%20in%20WikiText
Cheers Andrew Mc On Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 10:21:58 AM UTC+13, RichardWilliamSmith wrote: > > Hi, > > When you block format a paragraph, it gets split into separate lines so > you need to style them separately: > > """ > //This is a line// > ''and this is a new line'' > //while this is yet another line// > """ > > The issue is with how HTML itself treats block and inline elements, I > think. > > Regards, > Richard > > > > On Sunday, November 26, 2017 at 1:32:46 PM UTC+11, AndrewMc wrote: >> >> Hi All >> >> I need to have hard linebreaks appear in some of my text (a quoted part a >> poem). >> I followed the instructions at >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hard%20Linebreaks%20in%20WikiText and >> successfully had the line breaks appear. >> However, as soon as I added italics or bold formatting to the entire >> block of text, the line breaks disappeared. >> >> The following wikitext works: >> """ >> This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line >> """ >> >> This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line >> ------------- >> >> However, adding italics or bold to the inside of the whole block removes >> the line breaks: >> """ >> //This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line// >> """ >> >> """ >> ''This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line'' >> """ >> >> *This is a line and this is a new line while this is yet another line* >> >> >> *This is a line and this is a new line while this is yet another line* >> >> Note that the italics (or bold) formatting doesn't have to surround the >> whole block of text for the line breaks to be affected. If the formatted >> text encompasses a line break, then that line break will not appear. >> ------------- >> >> If I put the formatting outside the hard line break block, then both the >> formatting and the line breaks appear: >> >> //""" >> This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line >> """// >> >> >> >> *This is a lineand this is a new linewhile this is yet another line* >> >> Is this expected behaviour, or have I discovered a small bug in the >> wikitext processing? >> >> Cheers >> Andrew Mc >> > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a58cd3b1-83df-4852-995c-648ce76d6722%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
