Wiki formatting is really limited and unpredictable. Is there any way to disable it, and just use straight html? The <nowiki> tab disables wiki formatting AND html.
If I write a tutorial in .html for the help docs, I have to re-write it using wiki formatting. Wiki formatting does not properly support tables and spacing. You have to use some html to make up for wiki's shortcomings, and then it doesn't mix well with the wiki formatting you can't disable.
For example, if you use bold or italics in a line, the wiki formatting ignores the next line break. If you add a second line break, the line break appears 1.5 times the normal size. It makes no sense.
The Blitz tutorial I wrote, with tables and code structures, took forever to write, and the formatting was very unpredictable. It's so bad, in fact, that I am not even sure if the wiki can be useful. I wrote out a file format description in html, but the prospect of converting all that to unpredictable wiki formatting, with its strange and uncontrollable line spacing, is enough to make me not want to do it.
If I write a tutorial in .html for the help docs, I have to re-write it using wiki formatting. Wiki formatting does not properly support tables and spacing. You have to use some html to make up for wiki's shortcomings, and then it doesn't mix well with the wiki formatting you can't disable.
For example, if you use bold or italics in a line, the wiki formatting ignores the next line break. If you add a second line break, the line break appears 1.5 times the normal size. It makes no sense.
The Blitz tutorial I wrote, with tables and code structures, took forever to write, and the formatting was very unpredictable. It's so bad, in fact, that I am not even sure if the wiki can be useful. I wrote out a file format description in html, but the prospect of converting all that to unpredictable wiki formatting, with its strange and uncontrollable line spacing, is enough to make me not want to do it.