On Feb 28, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote:
  On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 15:44, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net>
 wrote:
  Hi,
 This is our last chance to change this behavior. We've found several
 places where having meaningful spaces are counter-productive:
 * in table cells since we can't align table anymore. For example:
 |= column1              |= column2
 | this is some para  | second column
 | hello                        | world
 (not sure this will be rendered nicely in mail but you see what I
 mean)
 * in scripts since having meaningful spaces prevents us from aligning
 velocity or groovy scripts. For ex we can't write:
 #if (....)
     #if (...)
         do something
     # end
 #end
 To see a better example have a look at 
http://tinyurl.com/ahz669
 What I think users real want are meaningful new lines but I see cons
 overweighting pros for having meaningful white spaces. Thus I'm think
 we should strip whitespaces at beginning and end of lines including
 for line breaks.
 I'm slightly less sure for multiple spaces between words but even
 there I think we could strip them have users use {{{ }}} to put a non
 breaking space for ex (or introduce a {{space/}} macro or another
 special syntax although I'd rather we don't introduce a new syntax).
 
 +0 for making multiples spaces not meaningfull 
Do you have another solution or does it mean that you don't think it's
that important to be able to align scripts and tables?
  but we do it I would prefer ~(space) for non breaking
space, it sounds
 more logical and nicer 
Yes good idea
Thanks
-Vincent