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Greg Hurrell
Yes, you're probably right, there are likely use cases for this, although right now I can't think of what I might use this for. Have you got any actual use-case examples of where this would be useful to you?
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anonymous
The typical case is poem, where a line breaks are needed between verses. But my use case is less elegant: I have long lines that I want to break at some given points whitout creating a new paragrah.
Actually, I've juste browsed the mediawiki help, and it allows some HTML tags to be not escaped. See http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting#HTML for the details. Maybe, <br/> can be handled in a more general group of not escaped tags with <code>, <u> or <s>.
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Greg Hurrell
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<br />thing seems like a reasonable request. I am thinking of doing a 1.10 release shortly, so this feature request would probably be considered for 1.11.On the subject of other unescaped tags, Wikitext already does allow some (
<em></em>and<strong></strong>, for example). It might be worth adding<u></u>and<s></s>, but I am not sure whether it is a good idea as they are both marked as deprecated in the official HTML spec.I also am not sure about
<code></code>; it's not deprecated, but for practical intents and purposes it is basically equivalent to<tt></tt>(which is already supported).In any case, if you want those other unescaped tags the request should really go in a separate ticket.
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anonymous
Any news about this?
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