[Mediawiki-l] markup question

[Rob Church]

<pre>
Some '''bold''' text
</pre>

...should be rendered fine.


Rob Church

On 2 Nov 2005 17:23:40 +0100, Patrick Gundlach <pg at levana.de> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> question concerning markup/parser:
>
> In a <pre> section, all markup is preserved (not interpreted), except
> for <nowiki>....</nowiki> tags. So
>
> <pre>
>  text <b>bold?</b>
> </pre>
>
> gets rendered as
>
>  text <b>bold?</b>
>
> (that's what I expected), whereas
>
> <pre>
>  text <nowiki>bold?</nowiki>
> </pre>
>
> gets rendered
>
>  text bold?
>
> Isn't this inconsistent? Or is this intentional behaviour? I am
> asking, because I write a mediawiki markup parser in Ruby and like to
> get things 'right' (whatever that means).
>
> Patrick
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