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diff --git a/doc/todo/Resolve_native_reStructuredText_links_to_ikiwiki_pages.mdwn b/doc/todo/Resolve_native_reStructuredText_links_to_ikiwiki_pages.mdwn index 5f21b2272..4468ce1e9 100644 --- a/doc/todo/Resolve_native_reStructuredText_links_to_ikiwiki_pages.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/Resolve_native_reStructuredText_links_to_ikiwiki_pages.mdwn @@ -128,6 +128,54 @@ picture before it. > (BTW, the [[plugins/txt]] plugin already does html formatting > in filter, for similar reasons.) --[[Joey]] +>> Thank you for the comments! Forget the work, it's not so much. +>> I'd rank the :wiki: link addition pretty high, and the other changes way +>> behind that: +>> +>> The :wiki:`Wiki Link` syntax is *very* appropriate as rst syntax +>> since it fits well with other uses of roles (notice that :RFC:`822` +>> inserts a link to RFC822 etc, and that the default role is a *title* role +>> (title of some work); thus very appropriate for medium-specific links like +>> wiki links. So I'd rank :wiki: links a worthwhile addition regardless of +>> outcome here, since it's a very rst-like alternative for those who wish to +>> use more rst-like syntax (and documents degrades better outside the wiki as +>> noted). +>> +>> The named link syntax (just like the :wiki: role) are inspired from trac +>> and a good fit, but only if the wiki is committed to using only rst, +>> which I don't think is the case. +>> +>> The rst-customize changes are very useful for custom directive +>> installations (like the sourcecode directive, or shortcut roles I show +>> in the examples page), but there might be a way for the user to inject +>> docutils addons that I'm missing (one very ugly way would be to stick +>> them in sitecustomize.py which affects all Python programs). +>> +>> With the presented changes, I already have a working RestructuredText +>> wiki, but I'm admitting that using .. raw:: html around all directives is +>> very ugly (I use few directives: inline, toggle, meta, tag, map) +>> +>> On filter/htmlize: Well **rst** is clearly antisocial: It can't see HTML, +>> and ikiwiki directives are wrappend in paragraph tags. (For wikilinks +>> this is probably no problem). So the suggestion about `.. ikiwiki:` is +>> partly because it looks good in rst syntax, but also since it would emit +>> a div to wrap around the element instead of a paragraph. +>> +>> I don't know if you mean that rst could be reordered to do htmlize before +>> other phases? rst must be before any preprocess hook to avoid seeing any +>> HTML. +>> +>> With the presented changes, I already have a working RestructuredText +>> wiki, but I'm admitting that using .. raw:: html around all directives is +>> very ugly (I use few directives: inline, toggle, meta, tag, map) +>> +>> If I'm thinking right, processing to HTML already in filter means any +>> processing in scan can be reused directly (or skipped if it's legal to +>> emit 'add_link' in filter.) +>> +>> -- [[ulrik]] + + ### Implementation ### Preserving indents in the preprocessor are in branch [pproc-indent][ppi] @@ -148,6 +196,29 @@ Perl I've ever written!_) > wouldn't it also match whitespace before a directive that was not at the beginning > of a line, and treat it as an indent? With some bad luck, that could cause mdwn > to put the indented output in a pre block. --[[Joey]] +> +>> You are probably right about the bug. I'm not quite sure what the nested +>> directives examples looks like, but I must have overlooked how the +>> recursion counter works; I thought simply changing if to elif the next +>> few lines would solve that. I'm sorry for that! +>> +>> We don't have to change the `$handle` function at all, if it is possible +>> to do the indent substitution all in one line instead of passing it to +>> handle, I don't know if it is possible to turn: +>> +>> $content =~ s{$regex}{$handle->($1, $2, $3, $4, $5)}eg; +>> +>> into +>> +>> $content =~ s{$regex}{s/^/$1/gm{$handle->($2, $3, $4, $5)}}eg; +>> +>> Well, no idea how that would be expressed, but I mean, replace the indent +>> directly in $handle's return value. +>> +>> The indent-catching regex is wrong in the way you mention, it has been +>> nagigng my mind a bit as well; I think matching start of line + spaces +>> and tabs is the only thing we want. +>> -- [[ulrik]] [ppi]: http://github.com/engla/ikiwiki/commits/pproc-indent |