26 Nov
2008
26 Nov
'08
8:14 p.m.
Asiri Rathnayake wrote:
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
If we want all spaces to be preserved, we could set the pre-wrap style
globally, on the whole document (or just on the content). But this will
cause problems with indented script code, as they generate a lot of output.
I am still against preserving *visual* spaces in general. This is not
how HTML works. This is not how the web works. Do we want to do this
just so that MS Word users feel like they are editing a word document,
and not a web page? Is this our target audience, secretaries that put on
their resumes that they can use MS Office?
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
On Nov 26, 2008, at 8:28 AM, Asiri Rathnayake
wrote:
Ok, I tried it and it has an effect only when the output is something like
this :
<table
border="1"><tr><td> hi </td></tr></table>
OR
<table border="1"><tr><td style="white-space:
pre-wrap"> hi
</td></tr></table>
And not when it's like :
<table border="1"><tr><td> hi
</td></tr></table>
So it makes sense to respect white spaces (+1). But whether to use or
styles is a question. styles seems to be a cleaner way as suggested by
sergiu.
Hi,
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Anca Paula Luca
<ancapaula.luca(a)xwiki.com>wrote;wrote:
No, and that's the point.
Currently whitespaces are significant and
are taken into account and thus represented. Vincent Massol wrote:
> On Nov 25, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Vincent Massol wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Do we want to honor whitespaces in table cells or not?
>>
>> The main advantage of trimming them is to get aligned cell symbols.
>>
>> See http://www.wikicreole.org/wiki/Creole1.0#section-Creole1.0-Tables
>>
>> Right now we're honoring whitespaces (they are significant).
>>
>> If we want to be consistent with normal wiki text we should honor
>> them
>> since we're honoring spaces in wiki text. However we just need to
>> agree that it won't be possible to get nicely aligned cell
>> delimiters
>> then.
>>
>> WDYT?
> One consideration. Right now you have to write the following:
>
> |cell1|cell2|cell3
>
> this is not very readable IMO compared to:
>
> | cell1 | cell2 | cell3
>
> However right now since whitspaces are honored if you write the
> latter
> you'll get:
>
> <td> cell1 </td> in XHTML.
Is there any possibility to trim spaces only around the table
delimiters
and
honor only the spaces inside the text in the tables?
I'm leaning towards trimming the surrounding white spaces. One is
that it
allows us to align cell elements and the second is they doesn't
represent
any valuable information. I mean regardless of the existence of
surrounding
white spaces, the output will look the same.