OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Volker Wysk wrote:
>Am Samstag, den 22.02.2020, 14:23 -0500 schrieb Little Girl:

>> My second comment is that I feel your pain on the concatenation.
>> You explicitly created two separate lines of text. Regardless of
>> what's on them, that is how you chose to position them. The same
>> thing happens in the text editor if I were to create two lines of
>> text without a blank line between them.   
>
>It doesn't happen in the text editor. The text editor doesn't seem to
>touch the text at all, other than what the user explicitly does. I'm
>not sure I correctly comprehend what you mean.

You're right. I had gone one step beyond the text editor and was
talking about what's displayed in the wiki page if there are two
lines of text (each of which was given a carriage return when you
entered them) without a blank line between them. As an example, you
would type these two lines into the text editor:

example
example

When you save the changes, the wiki makes the decision to concatenate
them into one line in the display, rendering them this way:

exampleexample

That's not at all what I want and requires intervention, so I would
love for such behavior to be optional.

If nothing else, this sort of thing is something to keep in mind when
choosing a wiki if your use of the wiki would involve you often
needing to be able to do that and you wanted to be able to do it
without intervening to make it happen. In fact, I'd say that the OP
should probably attempt to do the kinds of things that are likely to
need to be done in any wiki he's considering so he can make sure it
will all run smoothly.

>> It's annoying for the wiki to make a decision on their placement,
>> changing what we did, but I suspect it's a design decision rather
>> than a bug. 
>
>If that's a design decision, then it's a poor one. The user lays out
>the text for better readability, when working with the text editor. 
>This should be respected. And the text editor /does/ respect it.

Since the text editor doesn't do it and the graphical editor does,
I'd say it's a bug rather than a design decision.

The design decision is what I described above, which was me
misunderstanding what you were talking about.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.