Re: [Docutils-users] Re: rendering ellipsis_

[Aleksey G. <agu...@me...>]

David Goodger writes:
> [Felix Wiemann]
>  > I don't see any disadvantages in adding an automatic transformation.
>
> I do, because it won't do what I want 100% of the time.  It has to be
> optional.

Nothing in RST does "what I want" 100% of the time. Yet it works out
nicely as long as the mismatch is more often the exception than the
rule, and there is a way to override the default behavior. IMO
intelligent '--' to em-dash / '...' to ellipsis substitution would be
no worse than, let's say, current hyperlink/text substitution rules.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering