[xwiki-users] line breaks

[wangwh at att.net]

Hi, all, 
HELP! 
Two of my sites, swrrg.xwiki.com and sbnprinceton.xwiki.com
are displaying error messages on top menu bar, after the upgrade...
Why?
Wei-hsing


 
 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: wangwh at att.net
> Hi, Ludovic,
> One of my sites, http://swrrg.xwiki.com
> is displaying big area error messages. It was fine last time I saw it.
> Is this caused by upgrade?
> Wei-hsing
> 
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Ludovic Dubost <ludovic at xwiki.com>
> > 
> > The main reason why most Wiki Syntaxes are ignoring single line breaks 
> > and using a paragraph for double line breaks, if I remember well, is 
> > because textareas would scroll if you typed your text on a single line 
> > (see http://www.idocs.com/tags/forms/_TEXTAREA_WRAP.html). Therefore to 
> > make the text readable, you would type carriage return regularly, which 
> > thanks to the wiki syntax would be ignored.
> > 
> > I agree that today all serious browsers wrap the text properly so this 
> > is not usefull anymore and counter intuitive. Wysiwyg also renders that 
> > unusefull. It's also not what people expect with their habits of Word 
> > Processor.
> > 
> > What worried me is backwards compatibility and the way this would impact 
> > pages including scripting if we change the behavior to include a <br />
> > We could at least make it an option of the wiki and maybe even an option 
> > of the page.
> > 
> > Ludovic
> > 
> > 
> > Duke Tantiprasut a écrit :
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > Does any find that the way line breaks are handled are a bit counter 
> > > intuitive. For example, if I enter:
> > >
> > > line1
> > > line2
> > >
> > > you get:
> > >
> > > line1line2
> > >
> > > so to get results that you would normally expect, you would have to do 
> > > something like:
> > >
> > > line1<br/>
> > > line2<br/>
> > >
> > > which is pretty ugly. I thought I can live with it but it's starting 
> > > to bug me too much.
> > >
> > > Suggestions?
> > >
> > > Duke
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