[Pmwiki-users] Re: Re: Acrobatics while typing [:...:] and math markup

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 03:06:25AM +0200, chr at home.se wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> 
> > > Or is line continuation not allowed inside directives?
> > 
> > I haven't considered the possibility of line continuations within directives
> > yet.  But the pattern as written above wouldn't handle it (but could
> > probably be made to do so).
> 
> I'm not sure we really need line continuation within directives, although 
> I do know that I've used them for links. OTOH, a user might wonder why '\' 
> works everywhere but in directives.

Well, '\' does work in directives as it presently stands--it's just that
the $ROSPattern I gave wouldn't detect a directive that crossed multiple
lines.  (One could add a "s" to the end of the pattern string and it'd 
probably work.)

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