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@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/22/08, David Gerard dgerard@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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