-{}- is already commonly used on LanguageConverter wikis for "this is a
syntactic element but does nothing except separate a word".
The preprocessor already understands it on all wikis, as well. (But then
we explicitly serialize it to literally `-{}-` if your content language
doesn't have variants defined.)
--scott
On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 5:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz:
> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the
> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same:
> > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the
> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For
> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag".
>
> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even &nowiki;.
>
> Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does nothing"?
> But if
> that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands to
> nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? For
> better
> or worse...
>
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