I gave you props in my blog here.

http://involution.com/2006/06/13/redcloth-bug/

Tony

On 6/13/06, John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A paragraph is delineated by a wholly blank line.  I agree that
> Textile documentation (read: spec and tutorial material) needs
> improvement on this point and many others; this is a convention
> common to many lightweight markup languages of Textile's ilk, which
> is largely how they've gotten this far.
>
> That said, and having used many markup languages of various uses,
> I've found Textile to be far and away the nicest to actually write in.
>
> -- John
>
> On Jun 13, 2006, at 5:47 PM, Tony Perrie wrote:
>
> > What do you define as a paragraph in RedCloth?  Because in RedCloth
> > also doesn't support this either:
> >
> > --
> > p(link).
> >
> > Nor does it support this:
> >
> > <hr>
> > p(link).
> >
> > The quick reference page on hobix, seems to suggest that characters on
> > a line by themself are considered a paragraph.
> > http://hobix.com/textile/quick.html
> >
> > So, I'm fairly confused at this point.  What exactly is considered a
> > paragraph to RedCloth?
> >
> > Clearly, this behavior is not obvious to the casual user of Textile
> > (Instiki users?).  I personally think it is a bug.  I'm looking at the
> > RedCloth source code to try to fix it, but it's fairly dense code.
> > I'm not blaming anyone, and I'm hoping that this thread will serve as
> > documentation for other users.
> >
> > Also, I emailed _why who I met briefly at SXSWi in March of this year.
> >  I will keep the list updated with any response that he has.
> >
> > Finally, I feel that this is an appropriate forum for this discussion
> > because if this software is used by a wider audience these emails
> > serve as documentation for users.  This is particularly relevant
> > because RedCloth doesn't have a mailing list that I can seem to find.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > On 6/13/06, John Whitley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi Tony,
> >>
> >> As a point of order: While Instiki folks are certainly interested in
> >> RedCloth issues,
> >> RedCloth is maintained by a separate team from Instiki.  If you have
> >> a suspected or confirmed bug, I recommend checking out the RedCloth
> >> homepage, with links to the project page, mailing
> >> lists, etc.:
> >> http://whytheluckystiff.net/ruby/redcloth/
> >>
> >> To the specific issue that you cite, I believe that your
> >> interpretation of Textile is
> >> incorrect in this case.  All of the "block modifiers" must begin a
> >> paragraph.  This is
> >> essentially all of the modifiers that end in a period, e.g. "hn.",
> >> "p.", "bq.", and so forth.
> >> Your example "-- p(link). blah" places the "p." after the start of
> >> the paragraph, so it (correctly) isn't recognized.
> >>
> >> Possible solutions are to start the paragraph with the "p." marker:
> >>
> >> p(#link).  -- blah
> >>
> >> which produces:
> >>
> >> <p id="link">&#8212;blah</p>
> >>
> >> Or alternatively use a Textile span marker:
> >>
> >> -- %(#link)blah%
> >>
> >> to get:
> >>
> >> <p>&#8212;<span class="link">blah</span></p>
> >>
> >> FYI, The above examples were generated via RedCloth 3.0.4.
> >>
> >> -- John
> >>
> >> On Jun 13, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Joseph Perrie wrote:
> >>
> >>> I replicated the alleged bug here:
> >>>
> >>> http://instiki.org/show/AnchorBug
> >>>
> >>> Tony
> >>>
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