Re: [Docutils-users] Conditional nested text...

[Doug P. <dg...@ma...>]

On or about Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at 06:06PM, David Goodger indited:
>Let me nip that in the bud.  Substitutions won't work alone (or would
>only introduce unnecessary complexity).  All a substitution does is
>get references replaced by something else.

Understood. I don't have all the docutils/ReST internalized, I was mostly trying to show how I wanted the markup to look.
I figured something like what you showed would be needed.

>Combine this with substitutions if you like:
>
>.. |internal| replace:: :cond:`internal`
>.. |/internal| replace:: :cond:`/internal`
>
>That will gain you a bit of sanity-checking; misspellings will be
>caught.

Yay! I have a way forward!
Thanks. I'm sure I'll have more questions as I try to put all the pieces in place (that work might not start until next week, but I have plenty to think about until it does start).

-Doug