[Docutils-users] Re: Problem (?) with inline literals

[David A. <da...@bo...>]

David Goodger <go...@py...> writes:

> [David Abrahams]
>> When I try your workaround I still get a grammatically incorrect
>> apostrophe in the word "lists".
>
> The apostrophe was inserted to provide a word boundary, but has no
> other meaning as markup.  In other words, it's not supposed to
> disappear, so it doesn't.
>
>> Would it break anything if you added the backslash to the list of
>> "certain punctuation characters"?  That way, I could write
>> ``list``\s and get exactly the effect I want.
>
> [David Goodger]
>> Interesting idea.  May work.  I'll have to think it through.  There
>> may be adverse side-effects due to the way backslash-escapes are
>> handled internally (they're converted to \x00 null bytes, which I've
>> always thought was a bit of a kludge, but it's worked thus far).
>
> I tried it, it does work, and I can't think of any nasty side-effects.
> This neat trick allows for arbitrary text after inline markup:
>
>     Those bracketed expressions are Python ``list``\s.
>
> So I've checked it in.  Available now from CVS or in 20 minutes from
> the snapshot.

Rock me, Amadeus.

> I don't see a good way to allow for arbitrary text *before* inline
> markup though.  Is there a need?  We can't use a simple backslash,
> since that says "the following is *not* markup".

But... inline markup doesn't happen within markup does it?

the simple backslash outside of markup could mean "begin markup" if it
precedes "``".

'course I'm probably missing something.

>  Perhaps a certain
> escape sequence can be defined as "disappearing", like "\-" or "\." or
> "\'".  ("\ " has already been proposed as a way to indicate
> non-breaking space; not implemented yet.  After looking this up, it
> seems the "disappearing" idea isn't new either:
> <http://docutils.sf.net/spec/notes.html#character-processing>.)


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