[wikka-community] line breaks mid 'markup'

[Dave Pawson]

Hi Dario

2009/9/10 Dario Taraborelli <dartar at wikkawiki.org>:
> Hi Dave,
>
> Timothy is right - support for different kinds of whitespace as a separator
> in forced links was tacitly introduced in the formatter to capture potential
> exceptions.

Whats an exception then? Something contradicting the documentation?
E.g. a newline within a link?


> However, our official documentation (FormattingRules) is that users should
> only use the space character. I might be wrong, but I am not aware of any
> user systematically using these loose constraints on separators in forced
> links as a rule and we would definitely discourage their use.

That's what I found, newline within a link, 'I found it worked   so I left it'
was the rationale I was given.

 In the case of
> tables: line breaks within cells are not supported as new lines are used as
> row separators. This doesn't prevent users from using the --- markup to
> generate new lines inside cells.

But it does contradict the newlines within links regex? If they are allowed
in one place, why not in another would be the logic I guess.


>
> In the next release (using trunk as a codebase, after merging back
> 1.2-specific changes), the regular expressions used by the formatter will be
> stored in a library to simplify their maintenance and documentation. This
> should facilitate expressing formatting rules in other ways (hopefully
> including BNF).


Summary:  \n is allowed in a link, but nowhere else within an inline?

AFAIK that makes it the one exception?
Everything else about the syntax is line based.
  Or are there more exceptions?


regards





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