[dokuwiki] Re: Greedy brackets for footnote syntax

  • From: Dmitry Katsubo <dma_k@xxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:04:50 +0200

Mykola Ostrovskyy wrote on 08.10.2009 21:48:
> If you are asking about clairvoyant parser, I guess, with some extensive 
> analysis of surrounding
> syntax it's possible to fix these four cases. But then you can come up with 
> additional scenarios
> where that hypothetical parser will break as well.
> 
> If this is a practical question, RefNotes plugin mixes brackets and 
> parentheses (i.e. [(text)]),
> which have somewhat lower rate of collisions with common punctuation. Your 
> four cases are covered.

Hi Mykola!

Thanks for the notice! I was quite happy with build-in footnote support
and was very surprised to know that there are powerful extensions for
it. Thank you for your contribution!

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