Anca Paula Luca wrote: > Thomas Mortagne wrote: >> Hi devs, >> >> We have to make a decision about that. >> >> So here are the proposals: >> >> 1) remove the block leading and trainling spaces >> * The main goal is to make source formatting for tables for example >> more readable >> >> 2) make the spaces inside paragraph non meaningfull >> * Meaning an HTML like behavior where multiple spaces give one space >> >> 3) in case of 1) or 2) use ~<space> as non breaking space >> >> WDYT ? > > I'd go for a consistent approach, same behaviour in all situations so that > it's > not hard to know what to expect. I had some trouble defining "block elements" > for myself so that I can answer this email so I assume it would be difficult > for > users too. Therefore either 1) and 2) together or none. > > Now since wiki syntax is not supposed to be "what you see is what you get" > but > more of a markup language, I think non-meaningful spaces would be a > acceptable > (the HTML way) as long as there is a method to force a non-breaking space > (HTML's ). > > So +1 for 1) 2) and 3)
Same. >> +0,5 for 1) it's not critical for me but i'm not against it and we >> already decided to remove space before list item, headers etc. >> -0 for 2) I don't see the need for that and it's a lot easier for the >> parser to make spaces meaningfull (what to do when you have "test ** >> bold**" and things like that) >> +1 for 3) >> >> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 15:44, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This is our last chance to change this behavior. We've found several >>> places where having meaningful spaces are counter-productive: >>> >>> * in table cells since we can't align table anymore. For example: >>> >>> |= column1 |= column2 >>> | this is some para | second column >>> | hello | world >>> >>> (not sure this will be rendered nicely in mail but you see what I mean) >>> >>> * in scripts since having meaningful spaces prevents us from aligning >>> velocity or groovy scripts. For ex we can't write: >>> >>> #if (....) >>> #if (...) >>> do something >>> # end >>> #end >>> >>> To see a better example have a look at http://tinyurl.com/ahz669 >>> >>> What I think users real want are meaningful new lines but I see cons >>> overweighting pros for having meaningful white spaces. Thus I'm think >>> we should strip whitespaces at beginning and end of lines including >>> for line breaks. >>> I'm slightly less sure for multiple spaces between words but even >>> there I think we could strip them have users use {{{ }}} to put a non >>> breaking space for ex (or introduce a {{space/}} macro or another >>> special syntax although I'd rather we don't introduce a new syntax). >>> >>> WDYT? -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
