[pmwiki-users] Modified (:markup:)

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Mar 20 09:53:17 CST 2005


On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 10:11:37AM -0500, Neil Herber wrote:
> >Oh, based on one of Neil's suggestions, and to borrow an idea from
> >another markup language, how about if we allow more than one equals
> >(or @) on either side?  Thus:
> >    (:markup:) [==  
> >    This is something that contains [=escaped markup=] ==]
> 
> This would work too, but I still like the upper version better. It has the 
> big advantage of not breaking any existing sites.

They aren't mutually exclusive.  I'm proposing the [== ... ==]
convention simply because there are other situations (besides (:markup:))
where authors might want to escape [= ... =] itself.

Pm



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