Karl Eichwalder wrote:

tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com writes:

...

1. no space after headings -- only before (looks cleaner in text -- the

heading belongs to what is below it)

2. special "compact" headings with no space after OR before get special

markup, say

== compact heading ==!

Care about contents, not about layout ;)

hey you're preaching to the choir here!! :-)

... actually, what we COULD do if the "compact" headings are only needed inside tables is this:

td h* { /* no space before or after */ }

in the CSS stylesheet.

and have one markup fits all

If you want a "compact heading" it's most probably not a section, but a simple keyword for a list; make it bold and your are done:

Tom Parmenter wrote:

| |have we worked out what do to about this? | |I propose: | |1. no space after headings -- only before (looks cleaner in text -- the |heading belongs to what is below it) |

half a space after headings | |2. special "compact" headings with no space after OR before get special |markup, say | |== compact heading ==! | no space after headings

I'm happy with that :-)

the basic idea is that stray empty lines (which are often added to wiki markup after headings for legibility of the markup) no longer make presentation alterations.

|From: tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com |X-Accept-Language: en-us, en |Sender: wikipedia-l-admin@wikipedia.org |Reply-To: wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 23:46:08 +0000 | | | |Tom Parmenter wrote: | |>| |>|have we worked out what do to about this? |>| |>|I propose: |>| |>|1. no space after headings -- only before (looks cleaner in text -- the |>|heading belongs to what is below it) |>| |> |>half a space after headings |>| |>|2. special "compact" headings with no space after OR before get special |>|markup, say |>| |>|== compact heading ==! |>| |>no space after headings |> |> |> |I'm happy with that :-) | |the basic idea is that stray empty lines (which are often added to wiki |markup after headings for legibility of the markup) no longer make |presentation alterations. | | | | |> |> |> | | |_______________________________________________ |Wikipedia-l mailing list |Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org |http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l |

Presence or absence of white space after a header is part of the information content. A half-space of white before the text, says this header precedes something to read, while the closed up header says that header is being used, in effect, as table header, not in a table, but as part of a more tight-knit a matrix of information.

Tom Parmenter Ortolan88