Simulating Quote Blocks
You can simulate:
- As an element of language, a pattern is an instruction, which shows how this spatial configuration can be used, over and over again, to resolve the given system of forces, wherever the context makes it relevant.
like this:
- TAB space ":" TAB As an element of language, a pattern is an instruction, which shows how this spatial configuration can be used, over and over again, to resolve the given system of forces, wherever the context makes it relevant.
-- Complaints :-) to JimCoplien
TAB space : TAB creates a definition list for an empty term. Nifty reuse of the TextFormattingRules! It's not nifty, and semantically wrong. YMMV.
Is this new? I tried the exact same thing just last week and it didn't work for me. -- BradAppleton
Ahh - I see what happened. I tried TAB ':' TAB (no space before the ':'). That extra space makes the difference (otherwise it gets interpreted as verbatim text).
Now if only I could split the paragraph across lines so I could use italic/bold in more than one place in the paragraph. Ward, have you upgraded Wiki to Perl5 yet? Can you make it use the "stingy" operator ('?') when matching RegularExpression-matching emboldened and italicized text? -- BradAppleton
My only complaint is that I can never remember this rule -- I have to visit this page about every other week to remind myself how to do it. Thanks for the ever-useful tip! -- BillTrost
- I much prefer the way that UseModWiki handles this. Using Tabs in a web browser is silly, and typing that many space to indent seems a bit anti-productive. In UseModWiki you just start the line with a colon ... which is a bit easier. -- EvanLanglois
Never heard of 'stingy' before, do you mean 'non-greedy'? -- StijnSanders
Discussion on HTML tags moved to WhyDoesntWikiDoHtml.