But it should do it that way. <pre> is for raw code listings, and Wikipedia software should neither interpret anything inside it nor leave any HTML characters unescaped.
I disagree. <pre> is for preformatted text, not literal text. <nowiki> is for literal text. <pre> + <nowiki> is for preformatted, literal text. Otherwise you can't have [[...]]-style wiki links inside a <pre> block, which is something people might want, among other things. <pre> in Wikipedia should operate like <pre> in the rest of the world, if we want usin' Wikipedia to be natural and inuitive, that is.
How else would you propose being able to do the equivalent of:
<pre> <pre> a preformatted block of text is looks quite like this </pre> </pre>
if <pre> operated as you suggest?
Derek
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 08:53:02AM -0600, Derek Moore wrote:
But it should do it that way. <pre> is for raw code listings, and Wikipedia software should neither interpret anything inside it nor leave any HTML characters unescaped.
I disagree. <pre> is for preformatted text, not literal text. <nowiki> is for literal text. <pre> + <nowiki> is for preformatted, literal text. Otherwise you can't have [[...]]-style wiki links inside a <pre> block, which is something people might want, among other things. <pre> in Wikipedia should operate like <pre> in the rest of the world, if we want usin' Wikipedia to be natural and inuitive, that is.
How else would you propose being able to do the equivalent of:
<pre> <pre> a preformatted block of text is looks quite like this </pre> </pre>
if <pre> operated as you suggest?
It worked like what I'm saying in UseMod (and phase 2), then upgrade broke it, and restoring old behaviour was requested to make Polish Wikipedia work correctly again.
You use spaces in first column if you want to have Wiki markup with preformated text.
Brion, please reapply that fix.
On ĵaŭ, 2003-01-02 at 07:13, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
It worked like what I'm saying in UseMod (and phase 2), then upgrade broke it, and restoring old behaviour was requested to make Polish Wikipedia work correctly again.
No. In both UseMod and phase 2, <pre>...</pre> sections _did_ allow character references, while escaping out wiki markup and HTML tags into plaintext.
If you wish to restore the old behavior, character references should be allowed.
You use spaces in first column if you want to have Wiki markup with preformated text.
Yup.
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Hello there, happy new year ! Are there any problems to set ^^x^^ (or something else) to be <sup>x</sup> or better <sup><font size="-1">x</font></sup> ? We frequently use it on french wikipedia and it is a little bit tired to write each time. Thanks.
Aoineko
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 12:13:59AM +0900, Guillaume Blanchard wrote:
Hello there, happy new year ! Are there any problems to set ^^x^^ (or something else) to be <sup>x</sup> or better <sup><font size="-1">x</font></sup> ? We frequently use it on french wikipedia and it is a little bit tired to write each time. Thanks.
You're doing so much math ? In texvc you'll write ^x
Hello there, happy new year ! Are there any problems to set ^^x^^ (or something else) to be
<sup>x</sup>
or better <sup><font size="-1">x</font></sup> ? We frequently use it on french wikipedia and it is a little bit tired to write each time. Thanks.
You're doing so much math ? In texvc you'll write ^x
It's not for mathematics. But in french we need to wrote all 1st 2nd 3rd.... as 1<sup>st</sup>, 2<sup>nd</sup>... etc... We use it for centuries, dynasties numbers... If it's possible, it may be nice to be able to make ^^x^^ to be <sup><font size="-1">x</font></sup> for a better lookinh. texvc & LaTeX are install on french wikipedia ???
Aoineko
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