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9OTUNE YOGURT SÜREER AYRAN OLANA KADAR SİKERİMxD
In the ExtendedWikiMarkup I found the following explanation about
PRE-formatted text:
"If you wish text to appear
-formatted then all you have to do is to prepend 4 or 5 empty lines before that text. 2 more empty lines end such a block of text again."
This works fine, but when I begin a page with 4-5 empty lines, and I save a changed text, one of the empty lines at the top falls away. So, after saving the text 1-2 times, I have to append that empty line again. That is not a lot of work, but easily overlooked. But, much to my surprise, I found that using the tags <pre>
give exactly the same effect! And I personally find it is much more easy to use those small html-tags in the text then the empty lines. Also, by combining the
tag with a class in my css-file, it was easy to handle the size of the font, which was just what I needed. Is it a good idea to put the use of the <pre>
-tags as a possibility in the ExtendedWikiMarkup ?
Best regards, Jeroen.
milky: That 4/5 empty lines pseudo-markup stayed only for a dew development versions and now has gone away in favour of
. So here this was just a documentation bug (on the sf.net site). The distributed ExtendedWikiMarkup file already contains the updated infos. Hallo milky.
I'm glad that <pre> gets the favour, it is very easy to use.
On my Wiki, I also took up some explanation on using HTML entities for special chars. For if you're interested, here is the documentation I wrote about that: ! Special HTML-characters Some special characters like < and > can be seen as formatting tags instead of plain text by the html-interpreter of your browser. Also, spaces are discarded by the browser (unless you use the <pre>
tags, but that's not always convenient).
To avoid problems with special characters, you can use so-called HTML-entities. For instance, type   for a space, % for a %, _ for an underscore '_', and * for an asterisk '*'.
For more HTML entities see HTML Entities.
Best regards, Jeroen.
I thought ewiki handled '<','>','%', '_', and '*' just fine. Do we have a bug that makes entity encoding necessary somewhere or do you just include the information for your user's convienence?
Hallo Andy.
For most cases, that is true indeed. I wrote the help for HTML entities because, in some rare cases, the special characters were used for markup where I did not want that to happen.
For instance, in programs I write (in ABAP), there exist sentences like
'<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;<B style="color:black;background-color:#ffff66">%</B>;'
and
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which I wanted to be shown exactly like that on my website.
I found that I needed HTML entities in order to achieve that.
Best regards, Jeroen
milky: For the %'s there is truly now no other way to bring them into a page (it would be difficult to provide a workaround here), but for the asterisks * and exclamation marks ! and the like, it often works to start a line with one space character to escape their special meaning (*lists and !headlines).
The next version of the rendering kernel (December) will have full support for <pre> and <code> paragraphs, so there won't be any more wikilinking inside and we'll then finally can start to include good ol` ASCII-Art into pages (I already prepared megabytes of it ;-)
Btw, Jeroen, your character list looks interesting; maybe we should feed it directly into CVS.
Jeroen: Thanks milky for the tip of the one space character, I'll try it out. The <pre> and <code> support for the future sounds interesting to me, escaping any Wiki-linking on parts of a Wiki-page is exactly what I need :-)
And thanks for the compliment about the character list :-)
Regards, Jeroen
