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Bug
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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Medium
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None
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2.2.6, 2.2.7, 2.2.8, 2.2.9, 2.2.10
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Entering text like this issue where lines are created by merely entering a new-line character - like so -
causes the rendered text to display a line-break.
This problem also affects JIRA 3.7 (and earlier?).
This violates standard wiki markup behaviour as known in all major wikis I know of (wikipedia, c2, ...).
Wiki markups and others like HTML, Tex/LaTex, etc. follow the principle of What you get is what you mean
(WYGIWYM), not WYSIWYG. This usually means:
- Empty line creates new paragraph
- Line-break is explicit
- New line does not create a line-break,
In addition, Confluence and JIRA have line-break markup, vis.
\\
. This markup
is either superfluous (as the current rendering shows) or its intention has been corrupted as described
in this bug.
I dislike the fact that I am forced to write sentences spreading for ever across the screen in order to avoid funny formatting of my text (as I am doing right now). This also violates the long accepted advice to reduce the width of printed text. However, reducing the browser to a width that is acceptable for editing is most often not acceptable when viewing JIRA issues in tabular form. Switching widths depending on context is not an acceptable workaround.
Summary: Change rendering behaviour to fall in line with other wiki editors.
[CONFSERVER-7464] Newline character creates linebreak
Currently, the description is not rendered as intended. Italics, lists, etc are not working. I hope the issue is clear anyway.
While I think Werner's arguments are reasonable, I cannot imagine that we will ever change Confluence to not render newlines as line breaks. That part of Confluence's mark-up is far too entrenched in our user-base to change now. It would also be reasonably difficult to implement without significant investment in a wiki-markup transformation upgrade plan, (although I don't think that should stop us).