Redcloth upwards - Mar 2006 - Escaping characters

Hi,

I am writing some help about post formatting. I am using redcloth to 
format the text, and in a FAQ, also formatted with redcloth, I explain 
what to type to what to obtain.

So, how could I escape ''*'', ''#'' & Co, to
have an output like
<redcloth>
  Type *word* to obtain <strong>word</strong>
</redcloth>

I tried "Type **word** to obtain *word*", but does not work.

Any help?
Jean-Etienne

> So, how could I escape ''*'', ''#'' &
Co, to have an output like
> <redcloth>
>   Type *word* to obtain <strong>word</strong>
> </redcloth>
Try:

<notextile>
  Type *word* to obtain <strong>word</strong>
</notextile>

Thank you.
I have a second question. How can I include lists in a table?

I did that:

|_. What you type |_. What users see |
| <notextile>#</notextile> A first item
<notextile>#</notextile> A second item
<notextile>#</notextile> A third item |
# A first item
# A second item
# A third item |

But the table is not recognized. If I put all # in one line, of course, 
the list is not recognized :(

Any idea?


Assaph Mehr wrote:
>> So, how could I escape ''*'', ''#''
& Co, to have an output like
>> <redcloth>
>>   Type *word* to obtain <strong>word</strong>
>> </redcloth>
> 
> Try:
> 
> <notextile>
>   Type *word* to obtain <strong>word</strong>
> </notextile>
> 
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On 3/24/06, Jean-Etienne Durand <etienne.durand at mail.com>
wrote:
> Thank you.
> I have a second question. How can I include lists in a table?
Not 100% sure, but I think textile support for tables is rather
limited, especially since each row has to be on a separate line and
lists also rely on line breaks. If you want something like this you
should probably construct the table by hand with HTML tags. I could be
wrong though.

Cheers,
Assaph

Jean-Etienne Durand wrote:
> 
> So, how could I escape ''*'', ''#'' &
Co
In a Soks wiki (which uses Redcloth for markup), I would use
''==*word*=='' to get ''*word*'', but I
don''t know if Soks has extended
Redcloth...

Regards,
-- 
Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

> > So, how could I escape ''*'', ''#''
& Co
>
> In a Soks wiki (which uses Redcloth for markup), I would use
> ''==*word*=='' to get ''*word*'', but I
don''t know if Soks has extended
> Redcloth...
Cute, wasn''t aware of this. Looking at the RedCloth sources, this is a
redcloth thing. It translates ==...== to <notextile>...</notextile>.
This works beautifully on instiki as well.

Thanks for sharing,
Assaph

Assaph Mehr wrote:
> 
> Cute, wasn''t aware of this. Looking at the RedCloth sources, this
is a
> redcloth thing. It translates ==...== to
<notextile>...</notextile>.
> This works beautifully on instiki as well.
There seems to be a bug though: when a paragraph follows
this, e.g.,

  =*no textile stuff*=
  New paragraph here.

there is no paragraph break.  It behaves as if the newlines
are not there.

Regards,
-- 
Bil Kleb
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

> > Cute, wasn''t aware of this. Looking at the RedCloth sources,
this is a
> > redcloth thing. It translates ==...== to
<notextile>...</notextile>.
> > This works beautifully on instiki as well.
>
> There seems to be a bug though: when a paragraph follows
> this, e.g.,
>
>   =*no textile stuff*=>
>   New paragraph here.
>
> there is no paragraph break.  It behaves as if the newlines
> are not there.
It renders fine on my instance. The difference is that in Pimki I
force RedCloth to use :hard_breaks (using version 3.0.4 of redcloth).
Have you tried adding an extra line break between the lines? It
sometimes helps. If not, you could probably add a manual
paragraph-break element, or use the verbose <notextile> tags.

HTH,
Assaph

Assaph Mehr wrote:
>
> It renders fine on my instance. The difference is that in Pimki I
> force RedCloth to use :hard_breaks (using version 3.0.4 of redcloth).
Soks doesn''t use :hard_breaks.
> Have you tried adding an extra line break between the lines?
Yes.  And adding trailing and leading spaces all over.
> If not, you could probably add a manual
> paragraph-break element
That''s what I resorted to.

Regards,
-- 
Bil, x4364
http://fun3d.larc.nasa.gov

> > It renders fine on my instance. The difference is that in Pimki I
> > force RedCloth to use :hard_breaks (using version 3.0.4 of redcloth).
>
> Soks doesn''t use :hard_breaks.
You can override this. Quote:

  Setting :redcloth_hard_breaks => true in start.rb causes Redcloth to revert
  to the 2.x approach of turning every newline to a <br />. This is
off by default
  (i.e. the default works like Redcloth 3.x)

HTH,
Assaph