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 ?
-0, the users will blame the WYSIWYG for messing up their nicely formatted table/lists/etc. when switching between the editors. This will make the WYSIWYG unusable for a wiki syntax user. Marius > > +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? >> >> Thanks >> -Vincent >> http://xwiki.com >> http://xwiki.org >> http://massol.net >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >> > > > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
