Folks,
I make use of the semi-colon and colon a lot to prefix lines. I believe I
have identified a very helpful additional wikitext rule.
On parsing *";"* produces the html
<dl><dt>DL dt content</dt></dl>
*A Bold line staring at position 1*
On parsing *":"* produces the html
<dd>DT content</dd>
A non bold indented
On parsing ::: produces the html
<dl><dd><dl><dd><dl><dd>Three deep</dd></dl></dd></dl></dd></dl>
A non bold indented three deep
This behaviour is very useful because you can add a paragraph that wrapps,
and a custom editor toolbar button allows one to select multiple rows and
apply a leading character.
However it would be useful to extend this with another character that on
parsing produces the following html
<dl>DL content</dl>
A non bolded paragraph staring at position 1, or effectively a paragraph
I would like to;
- Identify a *suitable character* to do this perhaps*"|" or **"^" even
"."* (if it does not cause other problems)
- Implement a new parsing rule to provide this
- Propose it be added to the standard distribution.
- Add an editor toolbar button to *insert/remove* the *suitable
character* from the beginning of lines
- Add an editor toolbar button to *cumulatively insert/remove* the
*":" character* from the beginning of lines so you can quickly select a
block and chose the intent (tab equivalent) applied to each paragraph/line
(without installing code mirror editor)
Justification
- On importing text this is a quick way to convert text without
additional line feeds to behave as paragraphs
- Empty dl tags will cause a single line break between paragraphs
(reduces pasted text with multiple blank lines to collapse, if the leading
character is applied to each line)
- I wish I had this when I first came to Tiddlywiki5 as it would have
helped me deal with the linefeed issue when pasting text from other sources.
- I think it will support adoption as I know this has being a show
stopper for some new users.
Regards
Tony
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