WikiSyntax - lists and special characters: ;:#*

[Wiktor Walc]

;:#* characters have special meaning in lists, thus they must be translated into html entities

Examples: ; item : definition

:#abc :#def :#ghi

• You can also

break lines like this

[Flavien]

FYI, tested with revision 954, there is still a problem with definition lists

Example:

;Note:This is an example.

is converted to:

<dl><dt>Note</dt><dd>This is an example.</dd></dl>

Then at each conversion it get worst:

<dl><dt>Note&lt;/dt&gt;</dt><dd>This is an example.&lt;/dd&gt;</dd></dl> 

[Wiktor Walc]

Fixed with [965], please check whether this problem still exists.

[Flavien]

Replying to wwalc:

Tested with [966] and it's better but now there is still a problem: at each save a line break or <br> is inserted.

Example:

;Note: This is an example.
* A line with a bullet.

is converted to:

;Note:This is an example.


* A line with a bullet.

Then at each conversion it get worst:

;Note:This is an example.


<br>

* A line with a bullet.

Note: The space between Note: This is removed after the first conversion. It makes apparently no visual differences but will raise error in diffs.

[barns]

There is the same issue sometimes with li tag. What I did to remove this behavior was to add conditionally the line break in lists:

if (stringBuilder.length > 0 
     && !stringBuilder[ stringBuilder.length - 1 ].EndsWith( '\n' ))
	stringBuilder.push( '\n' ) ;

[barns]

I think removing BR tags in lists would be sane to (adding _inList like _inPre) could make sense.

[Wiktor Walc]

This has been (almost) fixed with [1033] (thanks again for a patch!).

"Almost" because one extra <br> tag is added which will cause diff troubles.

The space between Note: This will be removed (unfortunately) because we lose information about how wiki text is represented. So if there is a couple of ways to represent the same information, we use always one. I believe it can be hard to fix.

Ycombarnous, could you give me an example how to reproduce BR error in <li> tag?

[Wiktor Walc]

Handling lists and special characters (;:#*) improved with [1862] & [1863].

[Wiktor Walc]

Related tickets: #1469, #1100.