[pmwiki-users] (:markup:) and page variables bug

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:32:20AM -0500, Scott Connard wrote:
>    I stumbled on an odd (:markup:) problem.  Page variables inside a
>    (:markup:) in a GroupFooter displays a very odd result. Using the
>    following in a page is okay, but in the GroupFooter is odd:
>    (:markup:)
>    * {$Name}
>    (:markupend:)

I'm not surprised.  The way that relative page variables are
handled means that {$Name} gets converted to something else,
and PmWiki doesn't automatically recognize (:markup:)...(:markupend:)
as escaping its contents.

You might instead try

    (:markup:) [=
    * {$Name}
    =]

At any rate, (:markup:) is just one of those places where weird
things can happen, because we're trying to "trick" the markup
engine into doing something it wasn't really designed to do.

Pm