Bugs item #1504707, was opened at 2006-06-12 07:40 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by russblau You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=150470… Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: Replace.py's -fix:HTML breaks articles' formatting Initial Comment: While on most articles, -fix:HTML simply works, because of the flaw in wikimarkup (wherein it is difficult to distinguish between ''' as bolding, and ''' as italicizing with a single apostrophe (a frequently used construct)), when it comes to italics and bolding, -fix:HTML can cause unintional bolding, a major problem. See this diff: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multiplication_table&diff=pre… Before: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multiplication_table&oldid=57… After: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Multiplication_table&oldid=57… I think this could be fixed by scanning the region defined by the previous and the next linebreak, and if there are any other '''s, either using a <nowiki> construct to protect the apostrophe from protection, use HTML <i> tagsm or simply not do any replacements. ~maru ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 2008-02-27 09:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=855050 Originator: NO This is inherent in wiki-markup and "fixing" it would be nearly impossible; as the source code says, don't use -fix:HTML in automatic mode because it isn't safe! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Tavernier (tavernier) Date: 2008-01-26 22:55 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1705732 Originator: NO it could be fixed by adding exceptions to the doReplacements method i suggest 'comment', 'math', 'nowiki', 'pre' and 'source' it will looks like def doReplacements(self, original_text): """ Returns the text which is generated by applying all replacements to the given text. """ new_text = original_text exceptions = ['comment', 'math', 'nowiki', 'pre', 'source'] if self.exceptions.has_key('inside-tags'): exceptions += self.exceptions['inside-tags'] if self.exceptions.has_key('inside'): exceptions += self.exceptions['inside'] for old, new in self.replacements: new_text = wikipedia.replaceExcept(new_text, old, new, exceptions, allowoverlap = self.allowoverlap) return new_text ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Rotem Liss (rotemliss) Date: 2007-11-25 08:05 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1327030 Originator: NO This is a "bug" in MediaWiki (or in the text) and isn't related to pre or nowiki tags. The problem was that there was an invalid <i> tag, while the five apostrophes already made the text italic. Changing it would cause the same problems in a line that starts with a space and in a regular line. About nowiki and pre, these are already scanned and the text inside them is ignored (space before line is not scanned, though it's possible, but such scan is not needed, as tags in such line are parsed, unlike pre or nowiki). This is not a bug in the framework - I think it wasn't a bug when reported, and it's definitely not a bug now. The problem is of the original text or MediaWiki. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Russell Blau (russblau) Date: 2007-11-21 10:12 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=855050 Originator: NO The specific bug identified on "Multiplication table" no longer exists. Is there still a problem? If not, this bug can be closed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: siebrand (siebrand) Date: 2007-04-26 15:29 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=1107255 Originator: NO Please let us know if this bug report is still applicable to the current code. If no response is given, the bug report will be closed one month from now. This message was added in an effort to reduce the number of open issues on this project. Siebrand ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=603138&aid=150470…