New subject: [xwiki-users] line breaks

29 Jul 2006

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(a)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 &lt;ludovic(a)xwiki.com&gt;

 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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