[Docutils-users] Re: bunch of newbie questions

[Kirill L. <ki...@la...>]

David Goodger wrote:
> Other than the ones you mentioned (headings, transitions, and writing
> about "--"), off the top of my head I can think of two others: C
> syntax ("i--", "--i") and ASCII art.  There are undoubtedly others.

Supposedly all the C code should be within literal blocks, and literal 
blocks should not be processed by any means.

Same applies to python doctest blocks.

More complicated is an option list, and blockquote with attribution. But 
I guess if I'll just drop all lines starting with \s*[-/] this will 
almost do it. It will keep first lines of option descriptions from 
processing though, but I guess it is ok for now.

Also would not it make sense to allow using mdash in attribution? As 
well as mdash entity (|mdash|)

I don't really care much about ascii art. Wait, for ascii art it is 
essential to use monospace font, right? And the only way to achieve that 
is to put it into literal black, no?

I've got a question: is there any way to make all these transformations 
after the parsing is done? Otherwise I'll have to do some minimal 
parsing myself.

--Kirill