Steve Bennett wrote:
I'm surprised to discover that this works:
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In all these cases all the newlines in link or image captions are collapsed down to a single whitespace.
So, the usual questions arise:
- Does anyone know about, let alone use, this feature?
- Is it useful?
- Would anyone mind if it was gone?
It's probably useful, though not essential, in articles that use <ref> tags in conjunction with templates like {{cite web}}. Many editors like placing each parameter on a separate line to increase readability, and citations often occur within image captions.
My concerns are:
- Lines that look like lists or space-indented text may not be (which
reduces the number of ways you can parse the text) 2. The behaviour of newlines is different from normal text (normally 2 newlines in a row would give you a paragraph break) 3. The behaviour of newlines is different before and after the first pipe.
Steve