Topic on Extension talk:Poem

<br/> tags break italic and bold wiki markup but - interestingly - don't break <i> and <b> tags:

« Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita. »

« Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ché la diritta via era smarrita. »

A lot of difference when poem to be rendered in italic is long.

This is the usual MediaWiki behavior, the wikitags are broken after a new line. Perhaps you should mention this in your Wikisource's documentation.

Thanks; I simply consider it another proof that wikitags for italic and bold should be deprecated - and replaced by some well-formed code. But I know that most wikipedians wouldn't agree. ;-)