Chris, thanks for the further explanation! It had not occurred to me to add
entries like e; e;.
I'll be a little more specific about what I am looking for. I have some
marked-up text -- essentially a man page -- and want a script that generates
Dokuwiki source that renders appropriately. That means I need wiki markup,
and %%...%% and <nowiki>...</nowiki> do not work as far as I know. But I also
need to avoid wiki markup where it doesn't belong: if, for some reason, the
document source has a word in double stars, those stars should be displayed,
not interpreted. The cleanest way to do this in a script seemed to be to
escape possible syntax characters. Another advantage of doing this with
entities is that humans can likewise selectively avoid wiki syntax.
If there is a better way I'd appreciate hearing about it.
Thanks again! Eddie
Hi,
I understood that. Dokuwiki (dev version) has a character picker included in the editor. Dokuwiki uses utf-8 throughout, so special characters can be placed directly in the text. Most people don't know html entity codes off the top of their heads but can pick a character to place in the text. For me, that adds up to plenty of reason not to extend the syntax patterns of the parser to recognise entities. For those people/wikis that do have a requirement to handle entities surely a plugin or a entities.local.conf would solve their problem.
Cheers,
Chris
Notes:
[1] Entry in entities.local.conf could be as simple as e; e;
[2] Use %% ... %%, <nowiki>..</nowiki> or indent the lines by at least two spaces to avoid having text interpreted as syntax.
Eddie Kohler wrote:
Chris, this is not defining new syntax entities (like replacing >> with «), but about recognizing and preserving entities in the source (i.e., if the user types "E;", leave that as "E;" in the HTML output, rather than quoting it to "&#7E;"). Among other things, this gives you a way to programmatically quote text that might be misinterpreted as wiki syntax.
On Feb 14, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Chris Smith wrote:
Eddie Kohler wrote:
Hi all,
I've written a patch that allows &whatever; entities to make it through to HTML. Other &s are quoted as usual. Would this be generally useful? Had someone else done it already?
Thanks, Eddie
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You can define entity codes in conf/entities.local.conf
Personally, I don't think a patch is appropriate, but a syntax plugin would be suitable.
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