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| Creole should allow users to escape markup characters (or all non-alphanumeric characters) with a special character - for example backslash ("\"). It's often faster to type and more readable than using nowiki (3+3 curly braces). In order to allow spaces in front of lists, which is a quite common practice in wiki engines, it should be a escape character other than space. |
| Please discuss which character to use on [[Escape Character Decision]]. |
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| Creole should allow users to escape markup characters (or all non-alphanumeric characters) with a special character - for example backslash ("\"). It's often faster to type and more readable than using nowiki (3+3 curly braces). In order to allow spaces in front of lists, which is a quite common practice in wiki engines, it should be an escape character other than space. |
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| The escape character only escapes in certain combinations. This means that e.g. the tilde in this usecase is displayed as tilde and not escaped |
| The escape character only escapes in certain combinations. This means that e.g. the tilde in this use case is displayed as tilde and not escaped. It would certainly **never** escape if followed by a space or an alphanumeric character. |
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| Escape characters only trigger if you use it in combination with the occurence of a character that has special meaning in creole and would otherwise be rendered as markup. For example if you use "tilde + equal sign as first characters in a line" it will escape the equal sign and display it as such because otherwise it would be rendered as heading |
| Escape characters only trigger if you use it in combination with the occurrence of a character that has special meaning in creole and would otherwise be rendered as markup. For example if you use "tilde + equal sign as first characters in a line" it will escape the equal sign and display it as such because otherwise it would be rendered as heading |
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| If a escape character is only used in certain cominations we have a minmum of collisions with existing markup. For example if an wiki uses tilde as normal markup, it would not collide with e.g. |
| If an escape character is only used in certain combinations we have a minimum of collisions with existing markup. For example if a wiki uses tilde as normal markup, it would not collide with e.g. |
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| Here's a list of the current combinations that would cause the escape character (e.g. tilde) to trigger escaping of the following character combinations. This can be extended as need would be. |
| Here's a complete list that would cause the escape character (e.g. tilde) to trigger escaping of the following character combinations. This can be extended as need be. Note also that an escape character can be escaped by putting a space after it, since a space cannot be escaped. |
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| Escapes Markup Combination Example: |
| ============== ========================== ==================== |
| Nowiki Three closing curly braces ~~}}} |
| Unnumbered Lists Hyphen, First Char In Line ~- |
| Headings Equal Signs, First Chars In Line |
| Escapes Markup Combination Constraint Example: |
| ============== ========================== ========= |
| Bold Anywhere ~** |
| Italics Anywhere ~// |
| Unordered Lists Hyphen, first chars in line ~- |
| Ordered Lists First chars in line ~# |
| Headings Equal signs, first chars in line ~= |
| Links Open Anywhere ~[[ |
| Inside Links Within Links [[A pipe ~| is used within links]] |
| Links Close Anywhere ~]] |
| Line Breaks Anywhere ~\\ |
| Horizontal Line First chars in line ~---- |
| Image Open Anywhere ~{{ |
| Image Close Anywhere ~}} |
| Table Open First chars in line ~| this is | not a table |
| Inside Tables Pipe used within a table cell | x~|y | |
| Escaping Escape Anywhere ~~ |
| Escaping Escape Anywhere ~<space> |
| Nowiki Open First chars in line ~{{{ |
| Nowiki Close First chars in line ~~}}} |
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