https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9651
Eduard Braun <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #10 from Eduard Braun <[email protected]> --- I'm somehow unsatisfied with the current solution. In my opinion good typesetting is only possible if vertical spacing is based on paragraphs which are separated by a fixed amount of whitespace (no matter how many line breaks are between them). As soon as vertical spacing can be controlled by multiple line breaks, the whole thing gets prone to errors (e.g. to much and/or nonuniform amount of vertical space between paragraphs) and proper typesetting is probably not achieved. However this is my opinion and can be a matter of taste (as pointed out in comment 7), although I think everyone who sets value on good typesetting will share this opinion. So firstly I think it should be further discussed if we really want to allow manual control of vertical spacing by means of multiple line breaks. Secondly - even if we want to allow multiple line breaks to produce additional vertical space - the current interpretation of the MediaWiki Parser is far from optimal! The parser interprets the first and all following odd numbered blank lines as a new paragraph and puts a </p><p> into the HTML document, whereas even numbered blank lines produce a <br> in the HTML document (See the description of the duplicate bug 41769 for details). Therefore the spacing produced by multiple blank lines alternates between even and odd numbers of blank lines (since a <br> produces a whole line of vertical space, a new paragraph only about a half line). This behavior is highly inaccurate and unreliable and should be changed in that case. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
