On 8/17/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
IIRC, Steve, wasn't a large part of the problem that the parser would puke and die when presented with a *link* to such a page?
Yes, categories specifically. But hey, once you've (I've) suggested modifying the parser, suddenly everything becomes "possible".
Seriously, though, it seemed like all the dramas at nap wiki are solvable by writing '' instead of '' whenever italics are not wanted. The only remaining question is how to make doing that a pleasant experience for the average nap wiki user. IMHO, a javascript hack or a mediawiki hack at the time when a page is saved is the best way of doing that. For extra politeness, we could even transform that combination back into '' when loading it into the editor to save the user that ugliness.
The added realisation that '' only occurs in a small number of fixed occurrences makes the implementation of that hack child's play. No parsing, no grammar...
Steve