Rails - Jun 2006 - Bug in RedCloth or in my head?

Instead of emm-dashes I get struck-out text surrounded with single hyphens.  
RedCloth
3.0.4:

>> d = RedCloth.new "-- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the
right, all should be emm
dashes --"
=> "-- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the right, all should be
emm dashes --"
>> d.to_html
=> "<p><del>- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the
right, all should be emm dashes
-</del></p>"

There is a limit of one emm-dash per line -- ought to document this restriction.


Warren Fred

Warren Seltzer wrote:
> Instead of emm-dashes I get struck-out text surrounded with single 
> hyphens.   RedCloth
> 3.0.4:
> 
>>> d = RedCloth.new "-- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the
right, all should be emm
> dashes --"
> => "-- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the right, all should
be
> emm dashes --"
>>> d.to_html
> => "<p><del>- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the
right, all
> should be emm dashes
> -</del></p>"
> 
> There is a limit of one emm-dash per line -- ought to document this 
> restriction.
I see no technical reason for this limitation, because the Textism 
tool[1] is able to handle more than one emdash per line. For example, 
when I entered the above string into the Textism tool, it produced:

	<p>&#8212;hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the right, all should
be emm dashes&#8212;</p>

In this manner, redcloth deviates from Textism''s implementation of 
textile. Thus, please fix this problem, so I can stop using &mdash; 
entities all over my textile files -- making them look like (gasp!) 
HTML. :-(

Thanks for your consideration.

[1] http://textism.com/tools/textile/index.php

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Using version 3.0.3
>> r = RedCloth.new "-- hyphens to the left of me --"
=> "-- hyphens to the left of me --"
>> r.to_html
=> "<p>&#8212;hyphens to the left of
me&#8212;</p>"

3.0.4 is buggy in other places iirc (haven''t used it since _I_ was
tripped
up) - and afaik it''s on the backburner at the moment - stick with
3.0.3,
works fine.

On Monday 06 November 2006 18:07, Suraj Kurapati wrote:
> >>> d = RedCloth.new "-- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens
to the right,
> >>> all should be emm
> >
> > dashes --"
> > => "-- hyphens to the left of me, hyphens to the right, all
should be
> > emm dashes --"
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