From: Tom Counsell <tamc2@...>
Date: 2005-07-21T00:20:46+09:00
Subject: Re: customizing redcloth?

Hi Bruce

On 20 Jul 2005, at 11:50, bdarcus@gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Tom. Tied b, but no luck.  I'll need to see if something's  
> wrong
> with my method.

Your syntax looks fairly close to other textile syntax (quotes,links)  
so I'd watch out that Redcloth hasn't already mangled the text before  
it gets to your regexp.  In particular, Redcloth replaces certain  
bits of the text with codes (e.g. <1>,<2>) as it goes along.  Try  
using to_html(:inline_textile_quote) so that your rule is the only  
rule.  If it works then, then you need to play with the order the  
rules get executed.

> That aside, is there some way for me to do a or c without touching the
> redcloth.rb source?

The way I ended up doing it, was by overriding to_html in my subclass  
so that I had complete control over the rule execution order:

class WikiRedCloth < RedCloth

     RULES =  
[:refs_soks_bracketed_link, :refs_textile, :block_textile_table, :block_ 
textile_lists,:block_textile_prefix, :inline_textile_image, :inline_text 
ile_link, :inline_textile_code, :inline_soks, :inline_textile_glyphs, :i 
nline_textile_span, :refs_markdown, :block_markdown_setext, :block_markd 
own_atx, :block_markdown_rule, :block_markdown_bq, :block_markdown_lists 
, :inline_markdown_reflink, :inline_markdown_link ]

     def to_html
         super( *RULES )
     end

     # All the def inline_soks declarations etc

end

(full code halfway down http://rubyforge.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/soks/ 
lib/soks-view.rb?rev=1.40&cvsroot=soks&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs- 
markup )

Hope that helps

Tom