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

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Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 16, 2008, 00:10 UTC
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On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> wrote:
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> Avery Pennarun wrote:
>> 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.

Er, do you mind submitting (and testing :)) a new patch that does it? I don't have time right now.

Avery
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Message 6 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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