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That's the point Mark -- it's extremely easy to add linebreaks automatically -- actually most text editors and word processors do it today, some even try to do proper hyphenation. But it's totally impossible to __remove__ spurious line breaks from the text automatically, because without mind reading or (less efficient) understanding the text, there is no way to know which line breaks are meaningful and which are just a result of wrapping long lines. And no, people can't be taught to not hit enter when the cursor gets near the edge of their editing area.
Of course, we could design a markup language that requires the wiki engines to use monospaced font, 80-character wide text areas and display all the characters typed, including spaces and line breaks. You don't need any other markup but links then, actually, as lists, headings, tables, etc. can be easily made using spacing, and maybe
even some special unicode characters like · or •. And the pages could be then served as pdf files.
Such a "markup language" (not really) would be extremely intuitive for new users -- it's practically 1:1 WYSIWYG. Things look as good as you make it. If you want the text to be formatted nicely, you just need to spend an hour or two formatting it. You need to change something? No problem, just go through all your pages and change it -- very intuitive. Some users insert additional spaces and line breaks reflectively? Well, that will teach them to be careful what they type.
But for some reason I have a feeling that such Creole would be adopted in, maybe, one wiki engine and two or three blog engines and cms-es. And that it woudn't be really loved by copywriters. The whole idea behind a markup language is that __you don't have to care about irrellevant details__ like line breaks, or spacing, or font family, or heading alignment, or line wrapping, or font size, or colors. You just type the copy, and the software takes care of the rest for you. That's how it works in wikis, at least. You want to go and try to redefine what a wiki is? Go ahead, wish you look. Nobody will look at Creole then.
-- [RadomirDopieralski], 2007-01-18
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63 01-Mar-2007 09:06 49.696 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last typo
62 08-Feb-2007 18:29 49.696 kB YvesPiguet to previous | to last No headings and rules in lists
61 08-Feb-2007 18:07 49.284 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last how do we do it in other contexts?
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