Would the change also include something to handle the case where a
one-liner definition contains an intended literal colon? For example:
;Term: : Definition
In that case, the user really probably intendes a colon to trail
"Term" in the resulting <dt>, but today that colon gets prepended
instead as a literal to the Definition underneath.
-- Jim
On Jan 30, 2008 8:53 AM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/22/08, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Examples would be good, i.e. pages which have a
colon on the same
line, then what the writer's intent appears to have been.
Just resurrecting this thread: I think my change is a good one, and if
there are any actual arguments against it, I'd like to hear them. What
David is asking is a bit much: for me to find examples where a user
has entered wikitext which renders as basically nothing, and chosen to
leave it like that. More likely, the user would realise that the
sequence ;foo: renders in an unhelpful way, and would use a <nowiki>.
Perhaps the onus should be on someone else to find these mythical
examples to show how they would render incorrectly with the change.
Steve
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