Well, that's the problem of course. I suppose one could write a macro that takes an entity name or hex value and pops out the right character. Or some other such syntax. But using the HTML entity syntax, while useful, wouldn't make sense and would be confusing.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> wrote: > > Not sure why that would ever make sense. Wiki markup isn't HTML and shouldn't > ever be confused with such. How would you render an HTML entity when > formatting a wiki page to text or to a PDF for example? > > --Noah > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: trac-users@googlegroups.com [mailto:trac-us...@googlegroups.com] >> On Behalf Of Erik Bray >> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:23 AM >> To: trac-users@googlegroups.com >> Subject: [Trac] Re: HTML Entities in wik pages >> >> >> I think the main point is that it would be nice to be able to somehow >> type in named HTML entities in a wiki page, and have them unescaped. >> It's easier to type <e; than it is to configure an easy to use input >> method for arbitrary symbols. I'm not saying it's Trac's job to solve >> that problem. It's just something I've run into before myself. >> >> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Noah Kantrowitz <n...@coderanger.net> >> wrote: >> > >> > Not sure what you mean by that, but if it is a Unicode character just >> > type it in using whatever input method you prefer. My point is that >> > the wiki system handles HTML escaping for you. Assuming you do mean >> > some <= unicode glyph, it wouldn't need to be escaped anyway. >> > >> > --Noah >> > >> > On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:49 PM, Chris Nelson wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Noah Kantrowitz wrote: >> >>> On Jan 19, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Chris Nelson wrote: >> >>>> Sorry if this is obvious -- it seems it should be but I didn't >> find >> >>>> the answer -- but how can I put HTML Entities like ≤ in a wiki >> >>>> page. Perhaps I should ask a more general question, how can I put >> >>>> symbols like less-equals, etc. in wiki pages? >> >>> >> >>> Just put < in the wiki page ... >> >> >> >> That's < I want less-than-or-equals >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Trac Users" group. To post to this group, send email to trac-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to trac-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/trac-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
