Parse 'line breaks' properly so that text display on WA matches text editors and other web spaces.
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Parse 'line breaks' properly so that text display on WA matches text editors and other web spaces.
Feature Upgrade · Editor: euclid · Created by Aramec
declined
bugfix -standardization
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently, World Anvil does not properly display CRLF characters in article display text. Rather than begin text on a new line if a CRLF is parsed, it ignores the CRLF unless it's followed by a CRLF. This is extra perplexing because the WYSIWYG editor's editing panel properly interprets single CRLFs. To my knowledge, this is the only web space or text display system that ignores single CRLFs. As a result, text which is properly formatted in virtually every other text display system (program or webspace) isn't properly displayed in World Anvil, leading to the need to add BBCode line breaks in WA to text that already contains line breaks.How does this feature request address the current situation?
By properly interpreting a fundamental unicode character universally understood to create a new line, this feature would preventing the need to constantly modify text for it to be displayed properly on this website if it contains single linebreaks.What are other uses for this feature request?
Follow up
Some people seem to be worried that this would break 'millions of existing articles'. There's no reason for that to happen and multiple ways to prevent that from happening while still fixing this standardization issue.
How many of the 6490 people that visited the post were WA users with coins to spend?
The Team's Response
Hello there! I am not sure where this is coming from because Markdown also disrespects empty lines and requires a double space for the creation of a break-line so the "modern" point is rather moot. Yes that would break a lot of articles and yes there can be ways to mitigate it but this implies addition of complexity to mitigate an issue that hasn't been an issue for 5 years, the fact that from the several thousands (6490) that visited this post only 19 voted and 15 of them was positive leads me to believe that in the community at large this is not an issue.
Current score
19/300 Votes · +2630 points
Votes Cast
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+100
by bleakraven
on 2022-04-05 08:02 -
+200
by kingyak
on 2022-04-03 03:19 -
+300
by Carshand
on 2022-04-02 05:25 -
+10
by Anthraxus
on 2022-04-01 12:34 -
+100
by magnarex_
on 2022-03-29 10:57 -
+300
by Rahjar
on 2022-03-28 00:37I'm sure part of the confusion is that it reads CR/LF and interprets a pair of them as
but does not DISPLAY
bbcode.. if it woud display/save paragraph marks I imagine it'd help
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+300
by GaracaiusMendalus
on 2022-03-24 18:10 -
+300
by NorEtoc
on 2022-03-24 02:15 -
+100
by thoobiey
on 2022-03-22 14:05 -
+50
by TheComplimentNinja
on 2022-03-21 17:24 -
+300
by SmithTS86
on 2022-03-21 12:09 -
+300
by Ian4040
on 2022-03-20 22:33 -
+100
by The Bronze Manticore
on 2022-03-20 19:40 -
-300
by Hanhula
on 2022-03-20 08:36I have no idea how you'd do this without breaking everything. I think this: https://discord.com/channels/348060277989965844/378865780768374784/453069144225480704 was when this was added, because removing Markdown caused issues..
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+300
by CptDzastr
on 2022-03-19 14:37This would really help me - I keep assuming breaks because I put in breaks, and then having to go back and double-break to get a break in the output.
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+200
by Moondare
on 2022-03-19 09:30 -
-20
by A Revolutionary Devil
on 2022-03-19 01:39 -
-10
by Michael Chandra
on 2022-03-18 23:13I prefer it this way: I can use single newlines for visual purposes, and use [ br] for
when I really want a single enter. -
-300
by A Fluffy Ooze
on 2022-03-18 20:10Absolutely not - that will cause havoc on literally million of articles.
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+300
by Aramec
on 2022-03-18 16:11
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