https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59849
--- Comment #3 from Spinningspark <[email protected]> --- (In reply to WhatamIdoing from comment #2) > However, what's being used there as "indentation" isn't indentation, > strictly speaking; that text has been marked as the second half of a > term-definition pair in a definition list, which is not semantically > meaningful. It wasn't so marked by me and I don't see any markup in the edit window so you would appear to mean that VE has generated markup. Generating semantically incorrect markup and then blaming the user for the error is plainly ridiculous. Or perhaps you mean that the colon in wiki markup does not really mean indentation? Well, yes it does, it is used extensively all over Wikipedia (ahem, talk pages) with just that intention so by practice and precedent that is what it means. VE needs to live with that, not garble it because it doesn't like the semantics, otherwise VE will never be ready for prime time. > where, > * ''D'' = 1/''C'' is elastance > * ''C'' is capacitance > * ''S'' is stiffness No, that is not a good solution. Display maths lines are pretty universally indented for aesthetic reasons. The definitions list following a maths display line are commonly indented as well. Thus not indenting the "where" and using bullets are both not acceptable. Bear in mind that a formula, even a display formula, can be inserted in the middle of a sentence so bullets would break the grammatical punctuation. I can't understand this desire not to allow editors free use of indenting. It is an editorial decision and there is no reason for VE to interfere or impose something different. It is for the style guidelines to thrash out, not for VE to impose. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
