Ok so we all agreed to have > for quotes. I've added an issue in the wikimodel issue tracker for this: http://code.google.com/p/wikimodel/issues/detail?id=42 As soon as it's done in wikimodel, I'll add support for it in the new rendering. Thanks -Vincent On Jul 25, 2008, at 10:52 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi,
I've noticed that wikimodel uses the space character for representing quotes in XWiki syntax. Here's Mikhail's explanation:
" These events are send by quotation blocks.
Example:
The first line
The second line The third line The fourth line
Gives the following sequence of events: <beginQuotation> <beginQuotationLine>The first line <beginQuotation> <beginQuotationLine>The second line </endQuotationLine> <beginQuotationLine>The third line</endQuotationLine> </endQuotation> </endQuotationLine> <beginQuotationLine>The fourth line </endQuotationLine> </endQuotation>
In XWiki syntax quotation lines are represented by spaces at the beginning of each line. The quotation block is a block of lines starting from a space-prefixed line. Something like . The first line .. The second line .. The third line . The fourth line (I used the "." symbol to show a space)
In CommonSyntax quotation blocks starts with the ">" symbol as I wrote in the example above. "
I don't think we've really been using leading spaces to represent quotes, have we? Also I don't think the space character is a good character for this.
So my question here: Do we want to have a syntax for quotes/block quotes? And what character to use?
I think we do want to have this syntax and the ">" character sounds good to me.
WDYT?
Thanks -Vincent