to be picked and chosen from this, but at least the global python file can
be very convenient.
+> Did you consider just including the global rst header text into an item
+> in the setup file? --[[Joey]]
+>
+>> Then `rst_header` would not be much different from the python script
+>> `rst_customize`. rst_header is as safe as other files (though disruptive
+>> as noted), so it should/could be a editable file in the Wiki. A Python
+>> script of course can not be. There is nothing you can do in the
+>> rst_header (that you sensibly would do, I think) that couldn't be done in
+>> the Python script. `rst_header` has very limited use, but it is another
+>> possibility, mainly for the user-editable aspect. --[[ulrik]]
+
Some rst-custom [examples are here](http://kaizer.se/wiki/rst_examples/)
[rst-custom]: http://github.com/engla/ikiwiki/commits/rst-customize
>> 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.
+>>> Unsure about the degredation argument. It will work some of
+>>> the time, but ikiwiki's [[ikiwiki/subpage/linkingrules]]
+>>> are sufficiently different from normal html relative link
+>>> rules that it often won't work. --[[Joey]]
+>>>
+>>>> With degradation I mean that if you take a file out of the wiki; the
+>>>> links degrade to stylized text. If using default role, they degrade to
+>>>> :title: which renders italicized text (which I find is exactly
+>>>> appropriate). There is no way for them to degrade into links, except of
+>>>> course if you reimplement the :wiki: role. You can also respecify
+>>>> either the default role (the `wikilink` syntax) or the :wiki: role (the
+>>>> :wiki:`wikilink` syntax) to any other markup, for example None.
+>>>> --[[ulrik]]
+>>
+>> The named link syntax (just like the :wiki: role) are inspired from
+>> [trac][tracrst] 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
>> 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)
+>>> One of my long term goals is to refactor all the code in ikiwiki
+>>> that manually runs the various stages of the render pipeline,
+>>> into one centralized place. Once that's done, that place can get
+>>> smart about what order to run the stages, and use a different
+>>> order for rst. --[[Joey]]
>>
>> 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
>>
>> -- [[ulrik]]
+>>> Seems it could be, yes. --[[Joey]]
+
+[tracrst]: http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/WikiRestructuredText
### Implementation ###
>> Well, no idea how that would be expressed, but I mean, replace the indent
>> directly in $handle's return value.
>>
+>>> Yes, in effect just `indent($1, handle->($2,$,4))` --[[Joey]]
+>>
>> 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]]
+>>
+>>> Well, seems you want to match the indent at the start of the line containing
+>>> the directive, even if the directive does not start the line. That would
+>>> be quite hard to make a regexp do, though. --[[Joey]]
[ppi]: http://github.com/engla/ikiwiki/commits/pproc-indent