X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/c7eda8ae2592f546c0238a169cd88ff54df2ec29..b63f1260eef70cf7eb1703ebae1244db7cef0583:/doc/todo/format_escape.mdwn diff --git a/doc/todo/format_escape.mdwn b/doc/todo/format_escape.mdwn index 13f211d1e..762f16646 100644 --- a/doc/todo/format_escape.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/format_escape.mdwn @@ -47,8 +47,57 @@ which aren't used as real extensions but provide useful intermediate types. --[[JeremieKoenig]] +> Wow, this is in many ways a beautiful patch. I did notice one problem, +> if a link is converted to rst and then from there to a hyperlink, the +> styling info usially added to such a link is lost. I wonder if it would +> be better to lose _link stuff and just create link html that is fed into +> the rst,html converter. Other advantage to doing that is that link +> creation has a rather complex interface, with selflink, attrs, url, and +> content parameters. +> +> --[[Joey]] + +>> Thanks for the compliment. I must confess that I'm not too familiar with +>> 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. + +>> 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. + +>> 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]] + +> 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]] +[[!tag patch patch/core plugins/rst]]

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@@ -92,13 +141,13 @@ Index: IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm
  print html[html.find('')+6:html.find('')].strip();
  ";
  
- sub import { #{{{
+ sub import {
  	hook(type => "htmlize", id => "rst", call => \&htmlize);
 +	hook(type => "htmlescape", id => "rst", call => \&htmlescape);
 +	hook(type => "htmlescapelink", id => "rst", call => \&htmlescapelink);
- } # }}}
+ }
  
-+sub htmlescapelink ($$;@) { #{{{
++sub htmlescapelink ($$;@) {
 +	my $url = shift;
 +	my $text = shift;
 +	my %params = @_;
@@ -109,15 +158,15 @@ Index: IkiWiki/Plugin/rst.pm
 +	else {
 +		return "`$text <$url>`_";
 +	}
-+} # }}}
++}
 +
-+sub htmlescape ($) { #{{{
++sub htmlescape ($) {
 +	my $html=shift;
 +	$html=~s/^/  /mg;
 +	return ".. raw:: html\n\n".$html;
-+} # }}}
++}
 +
- sub htmlize (@) { #{{{
+ sub htmlize (@) {
  	my %params=@_;
  	my $content=$params{content};
 Index: doc/plugins/write.mdwn
@@ -169,8 +218,8 @@ Index: doc/plugins/rst.mdwn
  
 -* 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
+-  [[Directives|ikiwiki/Directive]].
 +* 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
@@ -223,7 +272,7 @@ Index: IkiWiki.pm
 +	  return $hooks{htmlescapelink}{$type}{call}->($bestlink, $linktext);
 +	}
  	return "$linktext";
- } #}}}
+ }
  
 @@ -628,6 +640,14 @@
  				preview => $preprocess_preview,