[Wikitext-l] The <pre> tag

[Steve Bennett]

Currently you can pretty much use <pre> anywhere with weird,
unpredictable results:

[[foo|Here's some <pre>text</pre>. Blah.]]

The result isn't terribly useful. This case is slightly more useful:

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[[image:foo.jpg|thumb|Some <pre>
Pre

formatted

text.
</pre>]]
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Would it be reasonable to restrict the use of <pre> to:
- General paragraph texts, but not internal or external link captions
- Image captions

Perhaps anywhere else it could be either treated as equivalent to
<nowikI>, ignored, or rendered literally?

Thoughts?

Steve