On 2007-03-26 Kathryn Andersen is rumoured to have said: > For example, there's a world of difference between > > mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak > imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config -DHasGcc2=YES > > and > > mv -f Makefile Makefile.bak imake -DUseInstalled > -I/usr/openwin/lib/X11/config -DHasGcc2=YES > > The second one is garbled, but that's what would happen if the > whitespace preformatted rule were to suddenly vanish. > > Especially in the case of the sequence of commands, they need to be > exact, so that it can be helpful to cut-and-paste the commands to make > things easier. >
I am sure this dead horse does not need any more flogging, but ... It looks to me that the example above is a case of conflating two features: preformmated text and honoring linebreaks. I have found that my users are often surprised by the effect of a leading space, but once they undestand it, they use it to honor linebreaks rather than to produce monospaced text. Some are annoyed that the font changes. -- Neil Herber Corporate info at http://www.eton.ca/ _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users