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:
1. Does anyone know about, let alone use, this feature?
2. Is it useful?
3. 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:
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.
Steve
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