[Doc-SIG] Re: [Docutils-develop] master plan for interpreted text?

[Beni Cherniavsky]

On 2003-02-03, Benja Fallenstein wrote:

> David Goodger wrote:
> > The to-do list has this item: add a runtime setting (directive and/or
> > command-line option) to set the default role of interpreted text.
> > I.E., map "`" to something.  Should we have a directive to map other
> > inline markup (i.e., "*" & "**", maybe even "``") to arbitrary inline
> > element types?
>
> This doesn't make sense to me; when I read a reST source, I parse the
> asterisks and backquotes in a certain way, and if a text would
> arbitrarily redefine them, the benefit would be lost. -1...
>
I don't think that "*", "**", "``" should be re-definable but they should
boil down to fixed interpreted text roles.  Simplifies the internal
document model.  [If that's already the case, excuse my ignorance :-].

-- 
Beni Cherniavsky <cben@tx.technion.ac.il>

Gigga incognita :-)