On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 07:58:11AM +1000, Lex Trotman wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 at 02:49, Marco Ciampa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all ... I'm bit confused here ... > > writing here because noone seems on line on irc... > > ... according to asciidoc blocks are (I am looking based > > the examples ... docs not so clear) |(pipe) ==== (4 same chars) and in > > asciidoctor examples (like tables) there are only three... > > which is right? > > > > asking here because I have some sources with tables formed of just three > > chars that the po4a asciidoc parser is unable to parse since it expect 4 > > chars at least... asciidoc docs specifically talks about 4 or more chars > > for blocks ... here: > > http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#X104 "Delimited blocks > > are blocks of text enveloped by leading and trailing delimiter lines > > (normally a series of four or more repeated characters)." why here there > > are just three? > > https://asciidoctor.org/docs/asciidoc-syntax-quick-reference/#tables > > > > > Asciidoc User Guide Section 16 where the quote above is from is > "Delimited Blocks". Tables are in section 23 so the statement in > section 16 does not apply to tables and also does not apply because > table delimiters do NOT have all the same character. > > As the Asciidoctor reference says table delimiters are | and at least > 3 = a total of at least 4 chars the same as the delimited block > delimiters.
I am sorry, my understanding of English could be fallable (very probably) but I read this: http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html#_tables "23. Tables The AsciiDoc table syntax looks and behaves like other delimited block types and supports standard block configuration entries [...]" so I read the "Delimiter block" specification... -- Marco Ciampa I know a joke about UDP, but you might not get it. ------------------------ GNU/Linux User #78271 FSFE fellow #364 ------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
