Extra newline also means extra line in output. More importantly, if a user fills in either in infoblock or a textbox, they have to put the second newline in - teaching the users to do this is as counterintuitive as teaching them to put an html break (<br>).
However, escaping the escape (e.g., "\" instead of "") can be difficult too - but usually not an issue for those who would actually put one in - and the <nowiki> mechanism is already widely used for this.
Jack
-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jean-Marc van Leerdam Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 4:39 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Replacing Newline using Extension:StringFunctions
Hi,
2009/8/31 Jack D. Pond jack.pond@psitex.com:
Waseem etal,
I would like to modify Extension:StringFunctions to allow this.
This requested functionalit is useful in making it easier
for users to
edit/create information in infoblocks without having to remember to put in <br>
I may be dense, but why do you need this in mediawiki? Using two newlines results in a new paragraph when rendering; using a single newline collapses the text into a single paragraph AFAIK.
The following wiki text:
this is line 1 this is line 2
this is line 3 (extra newline) this is line 4
this is line 5 (two extra newlines) this is line 6
renders as
<p>this is line 1 this is line 2 </p><p>this is line 3 (extra newline) this is line 4 </p><p><br /> this is line 5 (two extra newlines) this is line 6 </p> -------
-- Regards,
Jean-Marc
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