Last modified: 2005-06-04 15:07:58 UTC
Annoyingly, many editors use two spaces between sentences. This is ignored when the page is rendered; how about automatically removing redundant whitespace like this when edits are submitted?
What benefit would this have? Note that not all multiple whitespace is redundant, eg in preformatted text. Inclined to WONTFIX this.
There are more general cases where double newlines are needed. To get whitespace between a list and a heading you need two empty lines. One line has the same effect as zero. My understanding is that the list isn't a paragraph, so you need the first newline to kick the parser into paragraph mode. And as a general case, I don't want the wiki to change the source unless I tell it to.
in response to #c2 at http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox#Template:Forced_new_line I tried to find a way to generate new lines using a temlate containing :  (colon and non breaking space) This works there (in CVS) but does not at [[en:User talk:Patrick#Template:Forced new line]]. Does anybody know why and can provide another solution? Regards Reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
Closing as WONTFIX. Gangleri, that's totally unrelated to this issue.
Re comment #1 and comment #2 I said remove *redundant* whitespace... let's just focus on double spaces between sentences: always redundant. This could be easily removed. Benefits: Make wikitext more standard, easier to read, and save other people from removing it manually.
(In reply to comment #5) > I said remove *redundant* whitespace... let's just focus on double spaces > between sentences: always redundant. Not always: * "<pre>foo bar</pre>" * the lines-beginning-with-a-space wiki markup ("\n foo bar\n") * <math>, <hiero>, etc While all these situations *can* be detected, and already are in various parts of the code, it's not actually as trivial as "remove all double spaces". The benefits you list don't really outweigh the effort of coding this correctly (and introducing yet more complication into the already bloated parsing code) and are questionable even in themselves: * the wikitext would be "more standard" in such a subtle way that no-one would probably notice, while all sorts of more obvious things remained variable * personally, I find double-spaces between sentences *easier* to read - as, presumably, do the other editors who have a habit of inserting them * and, frankly, anyone who feels compelled to make such trivial changes is only getting what they ask for in terms of wasted effort - since it makes no difference to anything, why not just leave it alone? [That's only an opinion, obviously, but I certainly wouldn't spend my time *inserting* double spaces, knowing that they wouldn't show up.]
