Re: [Wikitext-l] Newlines in link captions

-----Original Message----- From: wikitext-l-bounces(a)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.