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Re: [PATCH] Documentation: replace [^~] with escapes everywhere

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Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date
Sep 16, 2008, 00:05 UTC
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Avery Pennarun wrote:
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> Rather than uglifying all the documentation to work around the syntax,
> perhaps we just want to disable subscripts and superscripts
> altogether?  I can't really imagine the git documentation needing
> them.
> 
> To do so, we can add these lines to asciidoc.conf (I just did this on
> another project yesterday, but I haven't tested in git.git):
> 
> [replacements]
> # Disable superscripts.
> \^(.+?)\^=^\1^
> # Disable subscripts.
> ~(.+?)~=~\1~

That's indeed a far superior solution. I withdraw my patches in favour of this.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@student.ethz.ch
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Message 5 of 12 in “Documentation: Quote ~(s) causing subscript”
  1. Documentation: Quote ~(s) causing subscriptThomas Rast, Sep 15, 2008
  2. Documenation: git-bundle: quote tildes that cause subscriptThomas Rast, Sep 15, 2008
  3. Documentation: replace [^~] with escapes everywhereThomas Rast, Sep 15, 2008
  4. Avery PennarunSep 15, 2008
  5. Thomas RastSep 16, 2008
  6. Avery PennarunSep 16, 2008
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2008
  8. Documentation: disable sub/superscript characters ^/~Thomas Rast, Sep 16, 2008
  9. Avery PennarunSep 16, 2008
  10. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2008
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 16, 2008
  12. Jeff KingSep 16, 2008

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