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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/rst/discussion.mdwn | 15 |
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diff --git a/doc/plugins/rst/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/rst/discussion.mdwn index 68e8f514f..a792b670f 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/rst/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/rst/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,17 @@ +The main problem with more sophisticated RST support is that ikiwiki turns +preprocessor directives into raw HTML and reST hates inline HTML. +inline relies on Markdown's handling of raw HTML, specifically +that it doesn't wrap paragraph-level `<div>`s in `<p>` tags -- see +[[todo/htmlvalidation]]. Other plugins might expect their output to be +interpreted in certain ways too -- [[Joey]] mentions toggleable and fortune. + Is [prest][1] the perl version of the reST processor referred to in the text? It seems to be reasonably well-maintained to me, and differences between it and -"standard" reST are pretty minor (a fairly exhaustive list, taken from the -prest docs, is at the end of this page). +"standard" reST are pretty minor. A fairly exhaustive list, taken from the +prest docs, follows: [1]: http://search.cpan.org/~nodine/Text-Restructured-0.003024/ -In addition, reST appears to allow raw HTML pass-through with the `raw` -directive, though I think a better solution would be expanding the format plugin -interface. --Ethan - An exhaustive list of differences between prest and "standard" reST follows: * fewer alternatives for bullet lists (only "+", "*" and "-") |