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Re^7: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 09, 2020 at 00:19 UTC

    You seem to be missing the point that PerlMonks posts are HTML-formatted. Converting \n\n into <p> (or whatever) means that's no longer the case. It breaks people's expectations.

    Now, if you're proposing that we support — in addition and completely separately — a plain text format, that's a notion worth considering. But plain text is not html. Users would not be able to add any kind of formatting markup on their own.

    Personally, I think a much better idea is to support — in addition and completely separately — markdown formatting. (I added an entry in the pmdev to-do wiki for this.)

    I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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      > completely separately — a plain text format, that's a notion worth considering

      Ehm ... what's the expected difference to using <pre> or <code> tags then?

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      Apart from a different CSS classes maybe.

      Cheers Rolf
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        what's the expected difference

        The user doesn't have to type the <pre>   </pre> tags? :-)

        But I think the idea is that if the user selects "plain text" posting mode, then we automatically apply certain transformations for nicety, such as autolinkifying URLs.

        I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.
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Re^7: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Feb 08, 2020 at 20:25 UTC

    Because that has little—best case—to nothing—what I believe but am open to citations—to do with why HTML was devised.

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