On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> >> On Dec 16, 2008, at 8:48 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: >> >>> Hi devs, >>> >>> We have an issue in the XWiki renderer when the XDOM contains a bold >>> starting with a space at the beginning of a line. For example when we >>> get an html containing <p><strong> some bold text</strong></p> >>> in >>> the office importer. >>> >>> In that case currently we lost the bold when rendering because one or >>> more stars followed by a space is a list in XWiki syntax. >>> >>> I see two solutions: >>> >>> 1) Escape the first space in a verbatim block : **{{{<space>}}}some >>> bold text** >>> 2) Move the first spaces before the bold block: <space>**some bold >>> text** >>> 3) Remove all the first spaces of the bold block: **some bold text** >>> >>> I would prefer 1) because it's the only one which is really the same >>> thing than the input but I think 2) is better for most users because >>> it's less disturbing for something which is not really that >>> important. >>> I listed 3) because it's easier to implement than 2). >>> >>> WDYT ? >>> >>> Here is my +1 for 2) and +0 for 1) and 3) >> >> I'd prefer 4)... :) >> >> Which could be: >> >> **~(space)whatever** >> >> This is possible I think by changing XWikiScanner.jj in wikimodel to: >> >> <#LI: (<XWIKI_SPACE>)* ( ("*")+ (":" | ";")* | ( "1" | "*" )+ >> "." (":" | ";")* | (":" | ";")+ ) (<SPACE>)+ > >> >> Note the <SPACE> instead of <XWIKI_SPACE>. > > Just to be clear the escape char is there to break standard behaviors > so having: > > ~(space)**bold** > > or > > **~(space)bold** > > makes sense to me. > > Same for headers: > > ~(space)= not a header > > And possibly same for other elements which recognize spaces. This is > very similar to using an escape in ~**notbold
ok so +1 for the general distinction between space character and space as part of the syntax. > > thanks > -Vincent > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
