Marius Dumitru Florea 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 ?
> 
> -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.
> 

Why? The renderer should leave spaces as they are, the WYSIWYG editor 
should not care about them, and the parser should just leave white space 
alone. ~space is the only one that must be transformed and treaded 
specially.

> 
>> +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


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Sergiu Dumitriu
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