[Pmwiki-users] Re: null characters or pattern breaking characters

[John Rankin]

I use the backtick in cases where I want to say "don't do what you
normally do with what follows". Specifically:

   `WikiWord    don't treat this as a wiki word
   `'           in smart quotes, make this a right quote
    `-          make this an en dash

I agree with Christian that this is slighlty different from what he 
wants to accomplish, which is roughly: 'stop here'. As he says, this is
in effect a zero width space or an invisible comma.

So I suggest `, (backtick comma) as the markup.

I have often wished for a semi-visible comma as a normal part of
text punctuation, where you want to help a reader pause in reading,
but a comma is unsuitable.

JR

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On Saturday, 10 January 2004 9:41 AM, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
John Rankin had proposed (and uses) backticks (`) as a null token to break
patterns and prevent things from being treated as WikiWords.  The original 
thread begins at 
http://pmichaud.com/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2003-April/000364.html .
There was also some further discussion in the thread starting at
http://contra.vosn.net/pipermail/pmwiki-users_pmichaud.com/2003-May/000471.html

I like the backtick better than any other sequence or idea I've seen
proposed.  Any comments/suggestions from others?  I'd really be interested
to hear John's comments and experiences on this.

Pm


On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 01:49:50AM +0100, Christian Ridderstr?m wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Here's an idea for handling the problem with patterns that swallow too 
> much. Let's introduce a special character/token whose only purpose is to 
> break pattern matches. 
> 
> I've added notes about this here:
> 	http://www.pmichaud.com/wiki/Test/NullToken

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