OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Sonntag, den 23.02.2020, 12:07 -0500 schrieb Little Girl:
> Hey there,
> 
> Volker Wysk wrote:
> > Am Samstag, den 22.02.2020, 14:23 -0500 schrieb Little Girl:
> > > My second comment is that I feel your pain on the concatenation.
> > > You explicitly created two separate lines of text. Regardless of
> > > what's on them, that is how you chose to position them. The same
> > > thing happens in the text editor if I were to create two lines of
> > > text without a blank line between them.   
> > 
> > It doesn't happen in the text editor. The text editor doesn't seem
> > to
> > touch the text at all, other than what the user explicitly does.
> > I'm
> > not sure I correctly comprehend what you mean.
> 
> You're right. I had gone one step beyond the text editor and was
> talking about what's displayed in the wiki page if there are two
> lines of text (each of which was given a carriage return when you
> entered them) without a blank line between them. As an example, you
> would type these two lines into the text editor:
> 
> example
> example
> 
> When you save the changes, the wiki makes the decision to concatenate
> them into one line in the display, rendering them this way:
> 
> exampleexample
> 
> That's not at all what I want and requires intervention, so I would
> love for such behavior to be optional.

Not quite. The two "example" lines are rendered as "example example",
with a space in between. And I think this is obvious and should be done
this way. It's only the GUI editor which messes up the markup text
(when including "<<BR>>"s), and the text editor preserves it.

> If nothing else, this sort of thing is something to keep in mind when
> choosing a wiki if your use of the wiki would involve you often
> needing to be able to do that and you wanted to be able to do it
> without intervening to make it happen. In fact, I'd say that the OP
> should probably attempt to do the kinds of things that are likely to
> need to be done in any wiki he's considering so he can make sure it
> will all run smoothly.
> 
> > > It's annoying for the wiki to make a decision on their placement,
> > > changing what we did, but I suspect it's a design decision rather
> > > than a bug. 
> > 
> > If that's a design decision, then it's a poor one. The user lays
> > out
> > the text for better readability, when working with the text
> > editor. 
> > This should be respected. And the text editor /does/ respect it.
> 
> Since the text editor doesn't do it and the graphical editor does,
> I'd say it's a bug rather than a design decision.
> 
> The design decision is what I described above, which was me
> misunderstanding what you were talking about.
> 
> -- 
> Little Girl
> 
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