Steve Bennett wrote:
On 6/22/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
That is not true. Space-indented text is still subject to some parsing, e.g. ''' for bold.
Let's be honest here: space indented text is *weird*. What's the historical context behind it? Why is it monospaced, coloured, surrounded with a border, and why doesn't it wrap? It's such an odd layout choice for something so easy to do by accident.
(it would all sort of make sense except for the lack of wrapping...maybe)
This "weirdness" comes from the fact that this particular wiki markup is not really defined in terms of what visible output it produces, but only in terms of what HTML it produces -- namely <pre>. (Note that this is not the same as wiki <pre>.) The reason HTML <pre> disables word-wrapping is so that you can do things like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_the_Greek_gods
Imagine this would word-wrap. It would destroy the whole thing :)
Timwi