Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:56:47 UTC
I apologize in advance for my question, because I've read so much polemic and flaming about this point... I'm hosting several wikis with layman users (school teachers...) and almost all of them struggle with single line breaks that are ignored. It is just not intuitive for them to use empty lines or the HTML <br> when they try to structure there sketchy notes within a given project. The best way is to tell them to use * bullets, but this is not what you always want... Is there no way that one includes an option for LocalSettings.php to treat single line breaks differently? Otherwise I'm forced to tinker with callbacks functions - but I'm actually a layman, too. Kind regards, Frank
Maybe you should take a look at bug #5855 comment #6 (and others) and it might give you some insight.
Thank you, the Poem Extension will be helpful - if I can prevent users from messing with the <poem>-tags. And maybe, I can use that in the template for new pages, too. P.S. I still do not understand the historical choices as to the mediawiki syntax. It would have been more logical to have special wiki markup to render concatenated lines when there are line breaks in the code. HTML's whitespace handling is not handy a paradigm for the average wiki-user, is it?
Maybe I'm just too used to HTML markup, but the present way of dealing really makes sense to me. Anyway, I'm INVALID-ing this, since this won't be integrated into the software.
