On 6/22/06, Timwi <timwi(a)gmx.net> wrote:
That is not true. Space-indented text is still
subject to some parsing,
e.g. ''' for bold.
Let's be honest here: space indented text is *weird*. What's the
historical context behind it? Why is it monospaced, coloured,
surrounded with a border, and why doesn't it wrap? It's such an odd
layout choice for something so easy to do by accident.
(it would all sort of make sense except for the lack of wrapping...maybe)
This "weirdness" comes from the fact that this particular wiki markup is
not really defined in terms of what visible output it produces, but only
in terms of what HTML it produces -- namely <pre>. (Note that this is
not the same as wiki <pre>.) The reason HTML <pre> disables
word-wrapping is so that you can do things like this:
Imagine this would word-wrap. It would destroy the whole thing :)
Timwi