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@@ -61,43 +61,33 @@ which aren't used as real extensions but provide useful intermediate types.
 >> rst. I am using this todo item somewhat as a pretext to get the conversion
 >> stuff in, which I need to implement some other stuff. As a result I was
 >> less careful with the rst plugin than with the rest of the patch.
 >> rst. I am using this todo item somewhat as a pretext to get the conversion
 >> stuff in, which I need to implement some other stuff. As a result I was
 >> less careful with the rst plugin than with the rest of the patch.

+>> I just updated the patch to fix some other problems which I found with
+>> more testing, and document the current limitations.

 
 

->> This being said, as I understand it rst cannot embed raw html in
->> the middle of a paragraph. I just found with more tests that even
->> links are a bit tricky, and won't work if they're not surrounded by
->> whitespace; the problem is that if we add this space, links
->> and preprocessor directives at the beginning of a line will be indented,
->> and this means something to rst. Also, rst complains about "?"
->> being used multiple times when the page contains more than one broken link,
->> apparently it uses it as a name for the reference as well as the link text.
+>> Rst cannot embed raw html in the middle of a paragraph, which is why
+>> "_link" was necessary. Rst links are themselves tricky and can't be made to
+>> work inside of words without knowledge about the context.
+>> Both problems could be fixed by inserting marks instead of the html/link,
+>> which would be replaced at a later stage (htmlize, format), somewhat
+>> similiar to the way the toc plugin works. When I get more time I will
+>> try to fix the remaining glitches this way.

 
 

->> The idea behind _link and other "intermediate
->> forms" was also that, when we can use rst's ability to target other output
->> formats, raw html won't be included in this process, and that
->> complications will happen with all markup languages if html continues
->> to be used as the language for preprocessor directive output.
->> Of course this could have been postponed until we actually need it,
->> but since we do... :-)
-
->> I think I will document the limitations, and tune the bugs of the
->> rst plugin code to do the most sensible thing after some more reading
->> of the rst docs. Expect an updated patch in the next few days, and feel
->> free to ask for other adjustments in the meantime.
-
->> Beyond being buggy in the least horrible way, I'm afraid I won't have
->> much time for ikiwiki in the next two or three weeks (exams),
->> but I think that ultimately these limitations could be worked around.
->> I'm not sure it is desirable for ikiwiki to know too much about the
->> syntax of its markup languages. Maybe the tricky "format" stuff
->> the toc plugin does could be used; maybe we need to think about more
->> generic ways to put "marks" in the various types of pages, which could
->> be expanded afer htmlization, and maybe the convert stuff could be used
->> to do this in an elegant way;
->> but then this is not very [[multiple_output_formats]] friendly either.
->> What do you think?
+>> Also, I think it would be useful if ikiwiki had an option to export
+>> the preprocessed source. This way you can use docutils to convert your
+>> rst documents to other formats. Raw html would be loosed in such a
+>> process (both with directives and marks), which is another
+>> argument for `"_link"` and other intermediate forms. I think I can
+>> come up with a way for rst's convert_link to be used only for export
+>> purposes, though.

 
 >> --[[JeremieKoenig]]
 
 
 >> --[[JeremieKoenig]]
 

+> Another problem with this approach is when there is some html (say a
+> table), that contains a wikilink. If the link is left up to the markup
+> lamguage to handle, it will never convert it to a link, since the table
+> will be processed as a chunk of raw html.
+> --[[Joey]]
+

 ## Original patch
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 ## Original patch
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