Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:38:09 UTC
It appears that there is no way to create a line break in the TimedText .srt format on wikimedia commons, and no way to make sure spaces don't collapse. I believe the .srt format for closed captioning stuff does allow this, but the way wikimedia works isn't making it possible. Or at least, if the lines DO break, the 2nd line gets hidden in the in-browser player so it can't be read. Can you fix this, and tell me how to do line breaks & hard spaces when it is possible?
TimedText -> MediaWiki extensions/TimedMediaHandler. Ace: A testcase is highly welcome, e.g. what exactly you have tried already. <br/> does not work for you to create a line break? If I understand "make sure spaces don't collapse" correctly, have you tried setting white-space-collapse="true" or "false"? Also see http://www.w3.org/TR/ttaf1-dfxp/
I tried <br />, I tried \n, \N, hyphens, pasting in Windows CRLF line breaks, UNIX LF line breaks, I tried | characters, I tried adding a leading space to the 2nd line, I tried extra CRLFs, I tried extra '\', and maybe some other things too, so many it is hard to recall. I tried \h to get hard spaces, and putting the spaces in single quotes, but that didn't work either. Perhaps the cortado player for Internet Explorer doesn't behave properly with .srt files' 2nd lines, or perhaps the wikimedia system is altering the presentation of the .srt text to the player? How is anybody supposed to add CSS such as white-space-collapse="false" to a .srt TimedText? This is the .srt file I'm working on: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/TimedText:Pie_In_The_Sky.ogg.en.srt The link you give for TimedText seems to specify completely different markup than I've ever seen anywhere else before. Is there a way to use that with video & audio on mediawiki instead of .srt files?
