On 2009/3/31, Patrick Parker wrote:
> While I certainly agree that WML markup is lacking in many ways, I am
> skeptical about the smoothness of the transition you are describing.
> The 5 standard escape entities in Pango Markup Language are: &
> < > " '
> This means that ~RC(a>b) image path function syntax will need to
> change (because it contains >)

I don't understand. Why do you think the syntax should be changed? If
the substring "~RC(a>b)" ever reaches Pango, it means it will be
displayed to the user. I can't even think of a situation where this is
not a severe bug. Or were you saying that an automatic transition is
hard because the translator (e.g., wmllint) has to guess that
"~RC(a>b)" shouldn't be converted to "~RC(a>b)"?

Back on the topic at hand, as mentioned on IRC, I'm wholeheartedly in
favor of switching to Pango markup; and in my opinion, we shouldn't
have a transition period. No need to try to support both the old
markup format and the new one. Let's kill the old code as soon as
possible; this will make the formatting code both simpler and much
more powerful.

Best regards,

Guillaume

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