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

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

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

> David Abrahams wrote:
>> I can think of one way to beautify cases like this: introduce a kind
>> of quotation which removes all spaces in what it surrounds as a
>> postprocessing step.
>> 
>>     ''*re* ``Structured`` *Text''
>> 
>> This would be analogous to re.VERBOSE, if memory serves.
>
> I'll add it to the character processing discussion in the To Do list,
> but I doubt the feature is worth the cost.

Has any progress been made in this general area?  I am finding myself
with the need for much finer character processing control, like the
ability to switch between ``code`` and normal text on character
boundaries, super/subscripts, and bold-italic fonts.  It's very
disappointing when I run up against limitations of ReST since it is
otherwise such a pleasure.

TIA,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com