[Pmwiki-users] processing the Æ ligature

[Robert P. J. Day]

  continuing my trek through the pmwiki docs, i ran across the issue
with the Æ ligature, and how it's processed as a wiki word.  but
why should this be a problem?  it seems that, once you surround a
character string with "&" and ";", that should make it a ligature and,
by default, you can just turn off wiki word processing inside those
characters.

  looking at it another way, are there any compelling reasons that
you'd *want* to process a wiki word as a reference if it's between
those characters?

  here's a possible solution.  that page suggests possibly mapping
"&Aelig;" to "Æ" to get around wiki word processing.  but that's
too limited since, some day, more ligatures might be invented that
have this problem, and you'll have to, one at a time, add their
exceptions to the rule, which is a pain.

  why not just create another variable, say, LigatureOverride or
something to that effect, which if set will turn off any processing
within ligatures, including wiki words?  seems like a simple enough
solution, and it handles any future additions.

rday