[pmwiki-users] Word wrap problem

[Radu]

At 10:22 AM 4/19/2005, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:12:57AM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> > Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> > >I just came up with another option -- we can give the wiki administrator
> > >an option to break preformatted text lines that are longer than
> > >some number of characters (as set by the wiki administrator).
> > >Would this work?  The lines beginning with spaces would still be
> > >preformatted, but wouldn't be so long as to extend off the right
> > >side of the page.
> > >
> > >Comments?

If someone doesn't use preformatting at all, then the best thing for them 
is to just disable the markup.

This is where my suggestion (to have a feature somewhere that shows all the 
markup currently available), comes in handy. Best place I can think of is 
in the edit page, on some collapsible window or a replacement for the 
QuickReference.

Then authors and admins know exactly what is available and if they don't 
need something they can disable it.

As for the editing tools... I like the idea but I don't like the depth of 
the tricks one has to code in order for some feature to work on most 
platforms. If one really wants a good cross-platform editor, one could be 
built in Flash.

> > There's no good column to break at. People with a wide screen will be
> > unhappy if the admin sets it to anything less than 40, people with a
> > narrow screen will be unhappy if the admin sets it to anything above 30.

That's a good point, and all the admin has to do is to change the number 
clearly visible in the markup. Or if it really has to be left to authors, a 
directive could be added to set a variable for the markup. Something like:

(:pre length=30:)
or
(:prelength 30:)


Cheers,
Radu
(www.monicsoft.net)