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I note that the current draft has support for preformatted (monospace and unformatted) text, but not simply unformatted text. One of the cleanup items I need to do for [[Ghestalt]] markup is to back out my current C-like backslash syntax for escaping wiki metacharacters and implement the double-backslash linebreak. I'll miss the loss of a mechanism to implement unformatted text containing metacharacters. I find we've used the backslash quite a bit.
One possibility I'm considering (maybe as an extension) is to adapt the exclamation prefix traditionally used for making CamelCase words nowiki. In Creole style, I'd adapt that to a double exclamation point. It needs to occur at the beginning of a word (delimited by whitespace) to be interpreted. Its scope would be to the end of the word (again delimited by whitespace), and would suppress all interpretation of metacharacters within that scope.
So, for example, if you want double backslash instead of linebreak, you could write {{{!!\\}}}. And to write markup that will produce that display, you'd write {{{!!!!\\}}}.
Of course I'm allowed to do this in the spirit of ExtensibleByOmission, but I'm wondering if there's sense this kind of functionality would be generally useful, either as a proposal for the core, or possibly as a "gently suggested" extension.
P.S. I want to take this opportunity to rant against the word "nowiki". I see it used here primarily as a synonym for preformatted (i.e. unformatted and monospaced), but its original usage was to defeat automatic link pattern detection, without the accompanying switch to monospace font. Thus, it seems nearly impossible to use the term without creating potential confusion about which is meant. I recommend we try to consistently use the terms "monospaced" and "unformatted" to refer to the components, and "preformatted" to refer to the combination.
-- [[Raph Levien]] 2002-02-10
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47 26-Sep-2007 09:06 9.405 kB ChuckSmith to previous | to last restore
46 26-Sep-2007 00:56 9.425 kB 219.138.204.162 to previous | to last
45 05-May-2007 20:05 9.405 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last artist's decision
44 05-May-2007 14:09 9.222 kB ChristophSauer to previous | to last should nowiki linewrap?
43 11-Feb-2007 23:52 8.985 kB null to previous | to last Agree to separate preformatted and monospace
42 11-Feb-2007 14:27 8.56 kB RadomirDopieralski to previous | to last against escape characters
41 11-Feb-2007 09:23 7.131 kB MicheleTomaiuolo to previous | to last escape char
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