webgen users - Apr 2007 - textile formatting questions

Hi,

I have a couple of webgen textile formatting questions.  Please feel
free to refer me to a textile mailing list if there is one that is
more appropriate than here.

First, how can I insert three dashes (---) in a <code> or <pre>
block?
 I want to include a YAML file example, and the yaml document
separator is three dashes, but this conflicts with the separator in
webgen.

Example:

<pre>
---
# above line causes error
</pre>

Second, how can I indent a <pre> block in an ordered list, but still
make it highlight at the first colum of the preformatted text?
Example:

* bulleted instruction to cut and paste file contents
<pre>
the
file
contents
</pre>
* the file contents above are not indented with the bullets

Thanks,
-- Chad

> First, how can I insert three dashes (---) in a <code> or <pre>
block?
>  I want to include a YAML file example, and the yaml document
> separator is three dashes, but this conflicts with the separator in
> webgen.
>
> Example:
>
> <pre>
> ---
> # above line causes error
> </pre>
Just escape the three dashes with a backslash! Like this:

<pre>
\---
</pre>

The same goes for webgen tags: if you want to have {relocatable: bla}  
on your website, you need to escape the tag: \{relocatable: bla}!
> Second, how can I indent a <pre> block in an ordered list, but still
> make it highlight at the first colum of the preformatted text?
> Example:
>
> * bulleted instruction to cut and paste file contents
> <pre>
> the
> file
> contents
> </pre>
> * the file contents above are not indented with the bullets
I tried the following in IRB and it seems to work:


* bulleted instruction to cut and paste file contents
   <pre>
the
file
contents
</pre>
* the file contents above are not indented with the bullets

So, just indent the <pre> line so that it starts with the text of the  
first list item.


Bye,
   Thomas

Perfect!  Thanks for the ultra-fast response.  Webgen rocks!

-- Chad

On 4/9/07, Thomas Leitner <t_leitner at gmx.at>
wrote:
> > First, how can I insert three dashes (---) in a <code> or
<pre> block?
> >  I want to include a YAML file example, and the yaml document
> > separator is three dashes, but this conflicts with the separator in
> > webgen.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > <pre>
> > ---
> > # above line causes error
> > </pre>
>
> Just escape the three dashes with a backslash! Like this:
>
> <pre>
> \---
> </pre>
>
> The same goes for webgen tags: if you want to have {relocatable: bla}
> on your website, you need to escape the tag: \{relocatable: bla}!
>
> > Second, how can I indent a <pre> block in an ordered list, but
still
> > make it highlight at the first colum of the preformatted text?
> > Example:
> >
> > * bulleted instruction to cut and paste file contents
> > <pre>
> > the
> > file
> > contents
> > </pre>
> > * the file contents above are not indented with the bullets
>
> I tried the following in IRB and it seems to work:
>
>
> * bulleted instruction to cut and paste file contents
>    <pre>
> the
> file
> contents
> </pre>
> * the file contents above are not indented with the bullets
>
> So, just indent the <pre> line so that it starts with the text of the
> first list item.
>
>
> Bye,
>    Thomas
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