>> 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
+>> 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]]
+> 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]]
+
+### Updated patch
+
+I've created an updated [patch](http://www.idletheme.org/code/patches/ikiwiki-format-escapes-rlk-2007-09-24.diff) against the current revision. No real functionality changes, except for a small test script, one minor bugfix (put a "join" around a scalar-context "map" in convert_link), and some wrangling to get it merged properly; I thought it might be helpful for anyone else who wants to work on the code.
+
+(With that out of the way, I think I'm going to take a stab at Jeremie's plan to use marks which would be replaced post-htmlization. I've also got an eye towards [[todo/multiple_output_formats]].)
+
+--Ryan Koppenhaver
+
## Original patch
[[tag patch]]
-* reStructuredText does not allow raw html to be inserted into
- documents, but ikiwiki does so in many cases, including
-- [[WikiLinks|WikiLink]] and many
-- [[PreprocessorDirectives|PreprocessorDirective]].
+- [[WikiLinks|ikiwiki/WikiLink]] and many
+- [[PreprocessorDirectives|ikiwiki/PreprocessorDirective]].
+* Some bits of ikiwiki may still assume that markdown is used or embed html
+ in ways that break reStructuredText. (Report bugs if you find any.)
* It's slow; it forks a copy of python for each page. While there is a