[Wikitext-l] Newlines in link captions

[Minh Nguyen]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> I'm surprised to discover that this works:
>
> <snip>
>
> In all these cases all the newlines in link or image captions are
> collapsed down to a single whitespace.
>
> So, the usual questions arise:
> 1. Does anyone know about, let alone use, this feature?
> 2. Is it useful?
> 3. Would anyone mind if it was gone?
>   
It's probably useful, though not essential, in articles that use <ref>
tags in conjunction with templates like {{cite web}}. Many editors like
placing each parameter on a separate line to increase readability, and
citations often occur within image captions.
> My concerns are:
> 1. Lines that look like lists or space-indented text may not be (which
> reduces the number of ways you can parse the text)
> 2. The behaviour of newlines is different from normal text (normally 2
> newlines in a row would give you a paragraph break)
> 3. The behaviour of newlines is different before and after the first pipe.
>
> Steve
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