A while ago we had a similar discussion about markup for nesting >><<, with variations on themes such as >>>><<<<<div><br></div><div>I feel that counting the number of colons may have similar drawbacks, I wonder if we can find a scheme similar to (:if1 and (:div1 that might work, and have the advantage of being similar,</div>
<div>eg (:1:Name:Value:)<br><br></div><div>simon</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 15 August 2010 13:58, Patrick R. Michaud <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmichaud@pobox.com">pmichaud@pobox.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 07:38:24PM +0200, Peter Bowers wrote:<br>
> >> > (::text: (:thumblist:) ::)<br>
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> I think this is a great idea to improve flexibility.<br>
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> Can it be done maintaining backward compatibility with recipes that<br>
> use $PageTextVarPattern?<br>
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</div>Agreed, preserving $PageTextVarPattern might be tricky. I'll have<br>
to look into that -- I definitely won't do anything that might<br>
impact the interpretation of $PageTextVarPattern.<br>
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It's possible that we'll only provide the two-colon case and not<br>
generalize it to more colons than that.<br>
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