Post #802131 by leevigraham on Fri, Mar 18, 2022 3:14 PM

I'm pretty sure that Martin didn't use Markdown when he made this post in 2003, and this "single spaced" info about the location seems to be pervasive in TC - and isn't in a list format.

Correct… but he didn't use BBCode to create line breaks either. Tiki Central v1 had a custom form for collecting location information.

Markdown? Seriously - that's the solution? Not for regular human beings.

Markdown is the exact solution for human beings. It feels natural to write and read (unformatted). Sure you might need to learn some small markup syntax for bold and italic but that's not a big ask when you need it.

I've built an image uploader so that you don't need to remember how to do that or copy and paste like Tiki Central v1.

URLs are automatically turned into links.

For the majority of posts you won't even need markup.

Compare that to BBCode where everything had to be a tag pair. I spent many hours cleaning up old posts that had broken tags where users copy and pasted incorrectly.

I don't think I'm asking for too much so that everything is single spaced when you use a carriage return in these text boxes in the forum.

I agree it would be good if a single carriage return was a single line break. However that's not part of the markdown spec… and is not implemented in any parsers / formatters.

If you must add line breaks and don't want to use the \ or double space options you can also finish each line with a <br> tag.

In regards to formatting recipes… using a list is the correct way of doing it. It's semantically correct and provides the accessibility hints for those using screen readers: https://webaim.org/techniques/semanticstructure/#lists

[ Edited by leevigraham on 2022-03-18 15:17:43 ]