[Pmwiki-users] Minor change suggestion: backtick
John Rankin
john.rankin at affinity.co.nz
Sun Apr 27 19:03:55 CDT 2003
> > Why not let an author use a backtick as an escape character, so one =
could write:
> > [[#Named`Reference]]
> > &A`Elig;
> > CE`Os
> ...
> > It's also a one line change to look for `[A-Z] and remove the `. The =
only=20
> > side effect I can think of is what would happen to ThisPage:#TopOfPage =
for example.
>=20
> My biggest concern would be with people cutting/pasting text containing
> typographic quotes. I.e., some packages and programs would quote
> things as ``Hello World'' and this change would cause that to break.
>=20
> It might be workable as a local customization by adding
> the line:
>=20
> $InlineReplacements =3D=20
> array_merge(array("/`([A-Z])/" =3D> "\$1"),$InlineReplacements);
Change that pattern to something like "/([a-z])`([A-Z)/" =3D> "\$1\$2" and =
I
bet it would be just fine. I don't know of any cases where someone
would *want* a single backtick surrounded by word chars.
-Scott
--=20
Jonathan Scott Duff
duff at cbi.tamucc.edu
----
I ended up using ([A-Za-z0-9.\\/])`([A-Z]), so we can write CI`Os and GNU/`=
Linux :)
JR
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