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In the meantime, the simple escape mechanism proposed here for preformatted blocks, I believe, is both adequate and safe. If we don't end up with an escape character then this is the best alternative, without a doubt. Having said that, I will endeavour to work through my escape thinking over the next few weeks and input into any escape arguments.
In the [[meantime]], the simple escape mechanism proposed here for preformatted blocks, I believe, is both adequate and safe. If we don't end up with an escape character then this is the best alternative, without a doubt. Having said that, I will endeavour to work through my escape thinking over the next few weeks and input into any escape arguments.
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It was a pity I missed the 03 July meeting, anyway if I could be there I wouldn't have done more than lurking because I am relatively new to Creole in general. I also think that it would be better to say that "discussion and modifications" to the Creole spec are currently on hold, instead of the set amount of time of 2 years which can be an epoch in the IT world.
Also, shouldn't the specification change (I know that this democratical concept conflicts with the "moving target" issue and creates a paradox) when more people (let's say for example, in the case that the number of people interested doubles) join? That's why I am generally against a "frozen" idea: it is something that mature projects can do, WikiCreole is a high-quality project but it is not yet so widespread to make such choices (in my humble opinion). I know that having it "frozen" will help developers to catch with it, but was it the correct choice from the marketing point of view? (please no flames, I am new here and I am respectful to this great project and the work that other people have done up to now!)
Most probably there isn't a yes/no answer, a compromise had to be done, in such case please excuse me for moving around the dust
-- [[DanieleC.]], 2007-Jul-12
Daniele, you are right. "Frozen" is the wrong term here. I changed it to your suggested phrase. Thanks!
-- ~~~~
Glad to give some help :)
-- [[DanieleC.]], 2007-Jul-14
It would be even better to say why Creole is on hold on the home page of wikicreole; otherwise, new visitors might think
there is some major problem which needs a solution (technical issue? conflict between contributors? lack of interest?)
If you don't want these details on the home page, the fact that the specification is on hold could be moved elsewhere,
such as in [[Versions]] (where the word //frozen// should be replaced anyway for the sake of consistency).
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-July-17
Hello, not quite sure of how/where corrections should be sent.
There appears to be a conflict between the line break section and the list section.
From the Line break section
{{{
Recommended XHTML:
* This is a single list item
followed by a paragraph?
<ul>
<li>This is a single list item</li>
</ul>
<p>
followed by a paragraph
</p>
}}}
First note, that the "?" is missing from the XHTML (and the use of "?" here is a bit confusing).
More importantly, this seems to contradict what is in the list section:
{{{
A list item ends at the line which begins with a * or # character
(next item or sublist), blank line, heading, array, or nowiki block;
like paragraphs, it can span multiple lines and contain line breaks
forced with \\.
}}}
To me, "span multiple lines" implies that
{{{
* foo
bar
new paragraph
}}}
should render to
{{{
<ul>
<li> foo
bar</li>
</ul>
<p>
new paragraph
</p>
}}}
Other note: what is an "array" block? I don't think this term is used previously or anywhere else.
What is the correct list element processing?
# Close list element at end of line (from Line Break section)
# Close list element when new list element is found, or when a block element is encountered (e.g. table, heading, hr, paragraph) (from List section)
thanks all
-- [[NickGalbreath]], 2007-July-17
Thanks for your remarks; I've removed the example in the line break section (no more valid with multiline list items), and
I've replaced "array" with "table" (my fault). I hope it's fine to fix these mistakes in 1.0; otherwise, there should be revisions
(1.0a, 1.0b, etc.).
List items can span multiple lines.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-July-20
Excellent. Thanks Nick for the remarks! Yves, I trust you so it's fine if you fix mistakes in 1.0. I wasn't able to do so the last few days. Nick, the multiline list items came in quite late, see [[26JunMeeting]] and [[Creole 1.0 Poll]], so I guess we overlooked to change the mentioned rule in the spec.
-- [[ChristophSauer]], 2007-Jul-24 06:03 (CEST)
This discussion page is much too long. If there has been some consensus that condensed into creole 1.0, the old discussion here should be moved to some archival page and this discussion page should be about creole 1.0 as it is.
The main page also has some contradictions in the change notes vs. the main spec. text and should be cleaned up:
* escape char
** The spec section should mention "The escape char is the tilde (~)." Currently you can only guess it from the examples.
** The change notes talk about "the escape character" at one place and about "tilde" at another place. This should be changed to "the escape char" at both places if this was the intended meaning.
** The change note "removed escaping closing nowiki triple curly brackets because this is now covered by the escape character" is unclear (removed WHAT escaping?) and contradicts the spec section about "Closing braces in nowiki" (the latter one says "lines with three closing braces which belong to the preformatted block must follow at least one space"). Decide, do we now use "~}}}" to escape or " }}}"?
For people not knowing mediawiki, the placeholder stuff is unclear.
-- Thomas Waldmann, 2007-08-09
I've moved Thomas remarks at the end to keep chronological order.
I agree with all your remarks. Thanks! I'd also move the list of changes at the beginning of [[Creole 1.0]], because they're irrelevant
there in what should be a reference document.
I've made the changes you propose, except for //the escape character" at one place and about "tilde" at another place// which
I'm not sure to understand."Removed escaping..." is obsolete; I've removed it.
The placeholder is unclear to many people. An implementation which uses it would be helpful to evaluate it. I guess it could
contain a number which would refer to a table of unsupported stuff when converting from some richer markup language like
mediawiki, to permit restoring them when saving modifications. Whether it would be practical is an open question to me.
I leave the decision to move this discussion or the list of changes to somebody else.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Aug-9
Creaole and other wiki-syntaxes like it really fall short if you have lots of external (and therefore often long) links. This is especially the case when using Creole as a Blog-Language, or when writing scientific documents (or other texts where you have to carefully cite your sources).
Therefore it would be great if the parsing rules could be relaxed a bit, so that if a link with description has the link at the second position and the first is clearly not a link, it still gets shown sensible.
That would help greatly.
-- [[http://häcker.net| Martin Häcker]]
What's the problem?
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2007-Sep-20
how would additional links like the ones used in http://trac.edgewall.org best fit into creole? --ThurnerRupert
Which additional links?
-- [[ChuckSmith]], 2007-Okt-17 15:08 (CEST)
What about underline and strikethrough?
-- Mo 2008-Mar-14
Underline is an [[CreoleAdditions|addition]]. Strikethrough is not defined (yet?). It's been discussed at different places, though; do a search for "strike".
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2008-Mar-16
== Self-contradiction in escape character
I find it self-contradicting or at least ambiguous. On one hand, it says, that escape character escapes just the following character, i. e.
{{{
~http://localhost
}}}
should be rendered as
{{{
http:<em>localhost</em>
}}}
On the other hand it says a tilde escapes the whole URI.
It is obscure, whether
{{{
~** bold ** text
}}}
should be rendered as
{{{
** bold ** text
}}}
(escaping the whole pattern, as an URL) or
{{{
** bold <strong> text </strong>
}}}
If escaping URI as a whole is an exception, it should be explicitly marked as such.
-- [[IvanFomichev]], 2008-04-04
In front of something which is converted automagically, such as a URL (but not explicit markup), it prevents the conversion. Elsewhere (except in nowiki, preformatted and inside URL, or in front of a blank), it escapes a single character.
-- [[YvesPiguet]], 2008-04-04
The EscapeCharacterProposal is somewhat different from the final spec. I don't like ~~ in URLs be considered escapes. They are common in user URLs and there is no need escaping a character that is not considered special by Creole.
* {{{http://example.org/~user/}}} -> http://example.org/~user/
On this Wiki, ~~ escapes the URL, but the URL is parsed as inline text:
* {{{~http://example**.org**/~user/}}} is rendered ~http://example**.org**/~user/
* {{{~http://example//.org///~user/}}} is rendered ~http://example//.org///~user/
Another test; Creole formatting inside URLs:
* {{{http://example//.org///~user/}}} -> http://example//.org///~user/
* {{{http://example**.org**/~user/}}} -> http://example**.org**/~user/
-- [[LarsChristensen]], 23-May-2008
Please don't consider what this wiki is doing to be "the final spec". The implementation isn't perfect. You've pointed out a few deficiencies here for sure. Tildes in urls are fairly common and Croele should treat them as any other character.
[[http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/e/simplewiki/tildes_in_urls|This wiki]] uses Creole and it does a better job with your tests. ;)
-- [[StephenDay]], 23-May-2008
= Example with two opening braces? =
The current (12-May-2008) page gives the following example for inline NoWiki markup:
{{{
{{if (a>b) { b = a; }}}
}}}
There are only two opening braces. Is that intentional?
-- [[Ben Kovitz]], 12-May-2008
The parser is having trouble with this. There should be three opening braces and four closing ones.
An admin needs to unlock the page to fix it (or add a comment that it is not displaying correctly).
-- [[StephenDay]], 13-May-2008
Thanks for the clarification. I'm implementing the ~{{{ just as a token, and not bothering trying to match up braces inside the Nowiki text with any braces that occur before the ~}}} appears.
-- [[Ben Kovitz]], 13-May-2008
== Use of TT tag for representing code
For code rendered using the {{{{{{ }}}}}} technique, would it not be better for the markup to be <code></code> tags rather than <tt></tt> tags, as the former gives semantic meaning and allows the browser to choose an appropriate font, wheras the latter is simply a display tag?
-- M1ke, 18-May-2008
Creole doesn't specify that <tt></tt> be used, it's just a suggested implementation. <code> could be used, as could <span>, or no markup at all (or whatever).
-- [[StephenDay]], 18-May-2008
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108 24-Sep-2008 09:01 47.251 kB 217.218.168.100 to previous
107 24-May-2008 21:26 47.247 kB 24.201.230.79 to previous | to last escape characacter in url answer
106 23-May-2008 19:53 46.839 kB 212.242.206.149 to previous | to last Escape characters in URLs considered bad
105 19-May-2008 14:58 46.067 kB StephenDay to previous | to last answer
104 18-May-2008 17:23 45.863 kB 89.242.167.236 to previous | to last Added discussion on TT tag
103 14-May-2008 08:30 45.52 kB BenKovitz to previous | to last Thanks for the clarification
102 13-May-2008 20:11 45.29 kB StephenDay to previous | to last answer
101 12-May-2008 22:45 45.05 kB BenKovitz to previous | to last Is the example with two opening braces correct?
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