webgen users - Sep 2008 - <pre> tag content now parsed by redcloth?

Hi,

Thanks for all the help so far.  I''ve almost got my site upgraded.  A
few more problems, which I''ll address in separate threads.

So, I had <pre> tags in several places which contained code - yaml,
ERB, etc.  Previously, these were all ignored - passed through
verbatim and not parsed by webgen.  Now, they appear to be parsed.

First, How should I do the equivalent of a "pre" tag?

Second, is this a bug?  Do redcloth specs say pre tag content should
not be parsed?

Thanks,
-- Chad

> Thanks for all the help so far.  I''ve almost got my site upgraded.
A
> few more problems, which I''ll address in separate threads.
No problem!
 
> So, I had <pre> tags in several places which contained code - yaml,
> ERB, etc.  Previously, these were all ignored - passed through
> verbatim and not parsed by webgen.  Now, they appear to be parsed.
What is the input and what the result? This would help a lot in
determining the problem.
 
> First, How should I do the equivalent of a "pre" tag?
This mostly depends on the markup processor in the processing pipeline.
Your default processing pipeline is `tags,redcloth,blocks`, isn''t it?

* If you used maruku, you would just indent everything that should stay
verbatim by 4 spaces and voila.
* Since you don''t use ERB on your pages, no ERB escaping is needed.
Would be done by using <%% %> instead of <% %>.
* A test shows RedCloth 3.0.4 leaves <pre> content alone but converts
the usual suspects (<>) to be HTML compatible. For example:

    <pre>
    <%= hallo %>
    something *new* and @nice@
    </pre>

    * some o*th*er

becomes

    <pre>
    &lt;%= hallo %&gt;
    something *new* and @nice@
    </pre>

        <ul>
        <li>some o<strong>th</strong>er</li>
        </ul>

So this should work alright. You could always surround the <pre>-tags
with <notextile> tags which forbid RedCloth to convert their content.
> Second, is this a bug?  Do redcloth specs say pre tag content should
> not be parsed?
I don''t know. Maybe there is a difference between RedCloth 3.x and 4.x
in that regard. As far as I know <pre>-tags should be left alone by
RedCloth. You may wanna ask this on the redcloth ML.

-- Thomas