Difference between revisions of "Template:Blockquote paragraphs"
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Line 4}} | Line 4}} | ||
| − | Yet this markup fails | + | Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used: |
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 | :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 | ||
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<p>Line 4</p>}} | <p>Line 4</p>}} | ||
| − | but again can't be indented in | + | but again can't be indented in by use of the indent wikimarkup ":" |
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p> | :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|<p>Line 1</p> | ||
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{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}} | {{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}} | ||
| − | And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" | + | And it {{em|does}} work with the indent wikimarkup ":", unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore: |
:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}} | :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 <br />Line 2 <br />Line 3 <br />Line 4.}} | ||
Revision as of 11:35, 10 April 2013
Due to the utterly intractable MediaWiki bug reported at Template:Bugzilla, and still unfixed Template:As of, block quoting on Wikipedia, with or without a template, cannot handle freeform linebreaking for paragraphs and poems and the like, unless formatted one very specific (and annoying) way. It's not a problem of blockquote templates, but all uses of {{#if:|
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}}{{#switch:open
|c|close =
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair = <blockquote{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}
}}{{#switch:open
|c|close = |s|single = /> |o|open = > |p|pair = >...
}}{{#switch:open
|s|single |o|open = |c|close |p|pair = </blockquote>
}}{{#if:|
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}}.
Template:Collapse topThe intuitive choice:
{{bq|Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4}}results in the mangled:
Blank lines seem to work at first:
{{bq|Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4}}though with quite tall spacing between the content blocks (lines, in our test cases):
Yet this markup fails when the indent wikimarkup ":" is used:
Just trying to use {{#if:|
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}}{{#switch:pair
|c|close =
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair = <p{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}
}}{{#switch:pair
|c|close = |s|single = /> |o|open = > |p|pair = >...
}}{{#switch:pair
|s|single |o|open = |c|close |p|pair = </p>
}}{{#if:|
|
}} or {{#if:|
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}}{{#switch:single
|c|close =
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair = <br{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}
}}{{#switch:single
|c|close = |s|single = /> |o|open = > |p|pair = >...
}}{{#switch:single
|s|single |o|open = |c|close |p|pair = </br>
}}{{#if:|
|
}} markup won't solve all the problems:
{{bq|Line 1 <br/>
Line 2 <br/>
Line 3 <br/>
Line 4}}results in odd spacing, with the middle blocks too close together:
Meanwhile this version seems OK at first:
{{bq|<p>Line 1</p>
<p>Line 2</p>
<p>Line 3</p>
<p>Line 4</p>}}but again can't be indented in by use of the indent wikimarkup ":"
Template:As of, the Template:Em solution for the problem is to use Template:Em with {{#if:|
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}}{{#switch:pair
|c|close =
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair = <p{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}
}}{{#switch:pair
|c|close = |s|single = /> |o|open = > |p|pair = >...
}}{{#switch:pair
|s|single |o|open = |c|close |p|pair = </p>
}}{{#if:|
|
}} or {{#if:|
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}}{{#switch:single
|c|close =
|s|single
|o|open
|p|pair = <br{{#if:| {{{params}}}}}
}}{{#switch:single
|c|close = |s|single = /> |o|open = > |p|pair = >...
}}{{#switch:single
|s|single |o|open = |c|close |p|pair = </br>
}}{{#if:|
|
}} elements (or others, like nested blockquotes and lists):
which, while hard to read, especially for long content, results in the expected:
And it Template:Em work with the indent wikimarkup ":", unlike the failed test cases hereinbefore:
Happily, there is a HTML comment workaround for readability that lets you do whatever you want:
{{bq|1=<!--
-->Line 1 <br/><!--
-->Line 2 <br/><!--
-->Line 3 <br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}
or even:
{{bq|1=<!--
-->Line 1 <br/><!--
-->Line 2 <br/><!--
-->Line 3 <br/><!--
-->Line 4.}}
which results in the expected:
They Template:Em citable:
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