Marius Dumitru Florea wrote:
Thomas Mortagne wrote:
Hi devs,
We have to make a decision about that.
So here are the proposals:
1) remove the block leading and trainling spaces * The main goal is to make source formatting for tables for example more readable
2) make the spaces inside paragraph non meaningfull * Meaning an HTML like behavior where multiple spaces give one space
3) in case of 1) or 2) use ~<space> as non breaking space
WDYT ?
-0, the users will blame the WYSIWYG for messing up their nicely formatted table/lists/etc. when switching between the editors. This will make the WYSIWYG unusable for a wiki syntax user.
Why? The renderer should leave spaces as they are, the WYSIWYG editor should not care about them, and the parser should just leave white space alone. ~space is the only one that must be transformed and treaded specially.
+0,5 for 1) it's not critical for me but i'm not against it and we already decided to remove space before list item, headers etc. -0 for 2) I don't see the need for that and it's a lot easier for the parser to make spaces meaningfull (what to do when you have "test ** bold**" and things like that) +1 for 3)
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 15:44, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> 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).
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent http://xwiki.com http://xwiki.org http://massol.net
-- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/