[dokuwiki] RE: [dokuwiki] Re: [dokuwiki] Re: conversion of 'x' to '×'
- From: "Metz, Bobby" <Bobby.Metz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:38:14 -0500
> > On Thursday 12 February 2009 02:29:51 Maciej Łebkowski wrote:
> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 18:52, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> in our wiki, we use a lot of hex values, but pretty much no
> >>> multiplication (and if there is multiplication, we use '*' rather
> >>> than
> >>> 'x' to show it). dokuwiki is autoconverting all of the 'x' strings
> >>> in the
> >>> hex values to '×' and i cant seem to figure out where. this is a
> >>> pain
> >>> for us as often times the display is text meant for people to copy &
> >>> paste into their terminals to run commands and the usage of '×'
> >>> breaks
> >>> that.
> >>
> >> Maybe just turn all typography corrections off?
> >> http://www.dokuwiki.org/config%3Atypography
> >
> > unfortunately, i like and use some of those :(
> >
> > also, i think that is just token to token ? plain 'x' values do not
> > get
> > converted. only when there are numbers next to it.
> > -mike
>
> The best way to do this is probably to create a syntax plugin that
> uses the same pattern as dokuwiki uses for multiplyentity, "(?<=\b)\d+
> [xX]\d+(?=\b)", and assign the syntax plugin a lower sort code than
> dokuwiki uses for the multiplyentity syntax, 270.
>
This may not be what you want, but if you're just doing hex numbers as part of
examples for user's to cut/paste, i.e. I'm assuming the hex is not part of some
explanatory text but simply example I/O for some process, then just place all
the examples in code sections.
Otherwise, I think a knob to disable multiply entity would be the preferred
solution. At least I can't imagine that most users would assume that 0x????
should be treated as multiplication for two reasons IMHO:
First, it's not "normal" syntax as the average person would use spaces I'd
think (at least that was what I was taught in elementary school).
Second, what would be the point of showing a static multiply by zero anyway
when the result is still zero. Perhaps a modification of multiply entity to
exclude 0x???? in the conversion is the more prudent approach.
Just my 2 cents,
Bobby
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