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[Jendrik Seipp <jendrikseipp@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 21.07.2011 09:25, schrieb MyO:
> Hi all, and Jendrik in particular!
>
> After getting used to regular txt files and Textpattern's neat line
> breaks conversion, I still feel a bit uncomfortable when you have to
> add \\ to each single line break to actually make this single line
> break seen in Preview mode and after HTML export.
>
> Is it possible to add single line breaks automatically and use some
> sort of a symbol as a NOBR signal?
This would be possible, however quite a lot would have to be carefully 
changed I guess. The question is if it really makes things "better" to 
have a linebreak by default. Personally I prefer the behaviour where I 
can use as many linebreaks in the edit mode as I want and still have 
only one paragraph in the preview. Whenever I want to separate entries 
into different paragraphs I just use a blank line. This way the entries 
are also easier to grasp in the edit mode.

I'd very much like to know what the others think. Would you prefer 
linebreaks or no linebreaks by default?
> I know this is not a good time to suggest a replacement for the
> txt2tags markup library, but how about switching to this neat markup
> language?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textile_%28markup_language%29
>
> It's used in Textpattern CMS and is pretty similar to txt2tags in many
> cases (it even supports **double-symbols markup** in addition to its
> regular *one-symbol markup* ).
> It also makes all the styling and all the other things easier with its
> inner styling support.
> The conversion from txt2tags to Textile shouldn't be too complex,
> and a Python module is available.
It's always good to look at alternatives, but I think txt2tags has 
proven to be very well suited for RedNotebook. It has a very nice syntax 
and supports so many different output formats, so it's definitely woth 
learning the syntax.

Cheers,
Jendrik