From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2004-04-10T00:21:27+09:00
Subject: Re: RedCloth bug and suggestion

_why_,

On Apr 9, 2004, at 11:13 AM, why the lucky stiff wrote:

> Jim Menard wrote:
>
>>     bq. -- some text
>> turns into
>>     <p>bq.&#8212;some text</p>
>
> The rule was: if an em-dash '--' is surrounded by spaces, the spaces 
> get stripped, so the dash can snug up against the words it's near.
>
> But, in the case of a period, I think we should keep the space.  So 
> the above should work now and sentences which start with an em-dash 
> should be easier to look on.

Thank you.

Just a thought: should there be a magic string that forces the space to 
stay there, like using "{}" in LaTeX?

> No.  Personally, I use YAML to handle the folding of my text.  So the 
> above could be stored in my YAML:
>
>    --- >
>    A paragraph that spans
>    multiple lines.
>
> Then, RedCloth.new( YAML::load( above_string ) ).to_html.

Do you write your docs and Web pages in YAML? I'm writing things like 
articles and documentation. In LaTeX, multiple lines turn into a single 
justified paragraph.

> So, if you like, I could strip the folding code out of the old YAML.rb 
> and use it in RedCloth.

That would be great. Again, if there was a way to turn that off (with 
folding on by default), that would be nice.

Thank you.

Jim
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