Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: small bug: blockquote

[c wallace]

Apologies for the delay in replying - I've been away without email access.

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 12:06:37 +0800, Sacha Chua <address@hidden> wrote:

> chris wallace <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > 0.7-3.1 gets marked up as possibly a numbered list because it matches
> > > this regular expression:
> > >    ["^\\s-*\\(-\\|[0-9]+\\.\\)" 1 "\n\\1"]
>
> Actually, twiddling this variable does seem to work.

(I should have said *I* couldn't twiddle this variable to work, given my 
low knowledge of lisp regexps).


> With this fix, whitespace is required after bullets and numbers that
> are part of a list. For example,
>
> - This
> - Is
> - A
> - List
>
> 1. This
> 2. too
>
> But this is not,
> --even if it starts with dashes
> 0.1] or numbers, as in the original test case.
>
> Please confirm that it works so that I can apply the patch to stable.

Your fix works in that the latter are not marked up as lists, but they 
still appear as separate paragraphs:

==== begin html ====
<p>
But this is not,

</p>

<p>
--even if it starts with dashes

</p>

<p>
0.1] or numbers, as in the original test case.

</p>
==== end ====

I would prefer:
==== begin html ====
<p>
But this is not,
--even if it starts with dashes
0.1] or numbers, as in the original test case.

</p>
==== end ====

Recall that in the original test case, the problem line was part of a 
blockquote (marked in the emacs-wiki file by starting each line with 3 
spaces:

==== begin emacs-wiki source ====
   in Dutch studies the TT frequency is 8.4% (9.1% in meta analysis all
   international studies).  In NTD cases, 12.7% (17.4% average in
   trials), 15.7% in mothers and 10% in fathers. ORs are 1.5 [95% CI
   0.7-3.1] for patients, 1.9 [1.1-3.3] in mothers and 1.1 [0.5-2.4] in
   fathers. in some other populations there is no association.
   Lots of the other gene based triad or case-control studies have
==== end ====

This gets marked up as

====begin html ====
<blockquote>
<p>
   in Dutch studies the TT frequency is 8.4% (9.1% in meta analysis all
   international studies).  In NTD cases, 12.7% (17.4% average in
   trials), 15.7% in mothers and 10% in fathers. ORs are 1.5 [95% CI

</p>
</blockquote>

<p>
0.7-3.1] for patients, 1.9 [1.1-3.3] in mothers and 1.1 [0.5-2.4] in
   <blockquote>
<p>
   fathers. in some other populations there is no association.
   Lots of the other gene based triad or case-control studies have

</p>
</blockquote>
==== end ====

so that the problem line does not appear to be part of the blockquote.  I 
would prefer:

====begin html ====
<blockquote>
<p>
   in Dutch studies the TT frequency is 8.4% (9.1% in meta analysis all
   international studies).  In NTD cases, 12.7% (17.4% average in
   trials), 15.7% in mothers and 10% in fathers. ORs are 1.5 [95% CI
   7-3.1] for patients, 1.9 [1.1-3.3] in mothers and 1.1 [0.5-2.4] in
   fathers. in some other populations there is no association.
   Lots of the other gene based triad or case-control studies have

</p>
</blockquote>
==== end ====

Is that clearer?

Thanks for your help, Chris.