Thanks Tony The use of <pre> </pre> tags does indeed give the desired line layout. It also allows the use of wikitext formatting such as ''bold'' and //italics//. However, it does also give a fixed-spacing font which may not be desired.
Cheers Andrew Mc On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 2:12:24 PM UTC+13, TonyM wrote: > > As Suggested, I did the Homework for you. > > Try this - wrap in a <pre> tag, not tiddler links still work > > <pre> > Text in a pre element > is displayed in a fixed-width > font, and it preserves > both spaces and [[HTML use in Tiddlers]] > line breaks > </pre> > > Regards > Tony > > On Sunday, 26 November 2017 13:32:46 UTC+11, AndrewMc wrote: >> >> Hi All >> >> I need to have hard linebreaks appear in some of my text (a quoted part a >> poem). >> I followed the instructions at >> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Hard%20Linebreaks%20in%20WikiText and >> successfully had the line breaks appear. >> However, as soon as I added italics or bold formatting to the entire >> block of text, the line breaks disappeared. >> >> The following wikitext works: >> """ >> This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line >> """ >> >> This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line >> ------------- >> >> However, adding italics or bold to the inside of the whole block removes >> the line breaks: >> """ >> //This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line// >> """ >> >> """ >> ''This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line'' >> """ >> >> *This is a line and this is a new line while this is yet another line* >> >> >> *This is a line and this is a new line while this is yet another line* >> >> Note that the italics (or bold) formatting doesn't have to surround the >> whole block of text for the line breaks to be affected. If the formatted >> text encompasses a line break, then that line break will not appear. >> ------------- >> >> If I put the formatting outside the hard line break block, then both the >> formatting and the line breaks appear: >> >> //""" >> This is a line >> and this is a new line >> while this is yet another line >> """// >> >> >> >> *This is a lineand this is a new linewhile this is yet another line* >> >> Is this expected behaviour, or have I discovered a small bug in the >> wikitext processing? >> >> Cheers >> Andrew Mc >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1a285eb3-4b34-4688-9a3f-b0ce32e02814%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
