> -----Original Message-----
> From:
wikitext-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org> [mailto:
wikitext-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
> Steve Bennett
> Sent: 03 December 2007 23:09
> To: Wikitext-l
> Subject: [Wikitext-l] Newlines in link captions
>
> I'm surprised to discover that this works:
>
> ----
> [[Foo|
>
> blah
>
> blah]]
> ----
>
> And so does this:
>
> ----
> [[Image:foo.jpg|
>
> blah
>
> |
>
> thumb
>
> ]]
> ----
>
> And even:
> ----
> [[image:foo.jpg|
>
> some text over here|thumb
> ]]
> ----
>
> And even more annoyingly:
> ----
> [[Link|
>
> ***This is not a list
>
> ]]
> ----
>
> In all these cases all the newlines in link or image captions are
> collapsed down to a single whitespace.
>
> So, the usual questions arise:
> 1. Does anyone know about, let alone use, this feature?
> 2. Is it useful?
> 3. Would anyone mind if it was gone?
>
> My concerns are:
> 1. 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.
>