On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Alfredo Braunstein wrote: > Christian Ridderström wrote: > > > Here's a new idea (dare I say "novel" ;-) > > > > Give empty paragraphs (and empty double spaces) a visual marker, for > > instance a different background colour? Flashing background? Animations of > > a black hole? Ok... maybe just a different background, light gray? > > > > This visual marker informs the user that the space will not appear in > > the output. "Purging" the DEPMs could even be optional at save. > > £$%£&!
Interesting language, I've never seen that ... smiley?... before. I've never used the word "novel" to describe an idea I've had before - boy am I glad I didn't do this in a paper.. it's embarrasing > From my original post on the subject: > > |Proposal 1) Plain forbid 3 spaces / 2 empty paragraphs (in order to > |discourage space/newline formatting abuse, do not load nor save double > |spaces, empty paragraphs). > | > |Proposal 2) Mark double/triple/... spaces and empty pars with some > |disgusting mark or colour, to encourage their removal. Can be combined with > |1) > > John even criticized it, and I agree with him. Sorry... I'll be a good boy and go back and read John's criticism... btw, I wasn't suggesting a disgusting mark... more sort of: "hey, here you left an empty paragraph because you want to add something" - sort of like the comment environment in that sense. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
