[pmwiki-users] Re: Modified (:markup:)

[Neil Herber]

At 2005-03-20  12:01 PM -0600, Patrick R. Michaud is rumored to have said:
> > Here's a relatively simple example...
> >   (:markup:)You can use [=[==]...=] to escape things.(:markupend:)
> >           ------------  --  -----------------------
> >          "You can use [=...=] to escape things."
>
>This example illustrates almost perfectly the problem with nested [=...=]'s
>of any sort -- there are a lot of people who would've quite reasonably
>expected the above to produce:
>
>     "You can use [==]... to escape things."
>
>Of course, the [== ... ==] convention resolves this nicely:
>
>    You can use [==[=...=]==] to escape things.
>or even
>    [==You can use [=...=] to escape things.==]
>
>and there's little confusion.

I would suggest that we agree on the equal-sign-incrementing and move on to 
other matters.

I am assuming that I could write:
(:markup:) [=====
line 1
line 2 has [=this untouched=]
line 3
=====]

Which is what I would *like* to be able to do because it provides such a 
strong visual indication of the (:markup:) limits.


Neil

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