Difference between revisions of "Template:Blockquote paragraphs"
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:{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 | :{{<includeonly>{{BASEPAGENAME}}</includeonly><noinclude>bq</noinclude>|Line 1 | ||
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| − | but again can't be indented in | + | but again can't be indented in citation: |
:{{<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 | + | And it {{em|does}} work with wikimarkup ":" citation, 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 09:56, 11 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 Template:tag.
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 with wiki ":" citation:
Just trying to use Template:tag or Template:tag 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 citation:
Template:As of, the Template:em solution for the problem is to use Template:em with Template:tag or Template:tag 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 wikimarkup ":" citation, 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:
{{#invoke:documentation|main|_content={{ {{#invoke:documentation|contentTitle}}}}}}
