... And, more importantly, its form doesn't say "separate the trail from the link". Just like <nowiki>, it only *happened* to do it (I tried on Wikipedia, and it doesn't do it now).
The point I'm trying to make in this thread is that <nowiki> happens to do certain things other than showing wiki syntax without parsing, and is used for them as if it's *intended* for it, but this is a hack. If a certain functionality is needed, such as separating the trail from the link, then it's worth considering creating a piece of syntax for it. -- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore בתאריך יום א׳, 7 באוק׳ 2018 ב-19:08 מאת bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com >: > Alas, no longer valid in XML or HTML5. (Although HTML5 will still > parse it as an empty comment, but with a "incorrectly-opened-comment" > error. > > -- > Brian > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 6:57 AM Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Found it :) > > > > https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/SGML/sgml-lex/sgml-lex > > > > Search for "empty comment declaration" :) > > > > -Chad > > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018, 11:50 PM Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm personally a fan of <!>. > > > > > > I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the > reference > > > at the moment though. > > > > > > -Chad > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinz...@wikimedia.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz: > > >> > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the > > >> > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same: > > >> > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the > > >> > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For > > >> > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag". > > >> > > >> We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even > &nowiki;. > > >> > > >> Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does > nothing"? > > >> But if > > >> that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands > to > > >> nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? > For > > >> better > > >> or worse... > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Daniel Kinzler > > >> Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform > > >> Wikimedia Foundation > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > > >> Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > > > > > > On Oct 5, 2018 11:50 PM, "Chad" <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I'm personally a fan of <!>. > > > > I came across it years ago--it's a null comment. Can't find the reference > > at the moment though. > > > > -Chad > > > > On Thu, Oct 4, 2018, 2:25 PM Daniel Kinzler <dkinz...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > > > > > Am 04.10.2018 um 18:58 schrieb Thiemo Kreuz: > > > > The syntax "[[Schnee]]<nowiki />reichtum" is quite common in the > > > > German community. There are not many other ways to achieve the same: > > > > <span /> or ­ can be used instead.[1] The later is often the > > > > better alternative, but an auto-replacement is not possible. For > > > > example, "[[Bund]]<nowiki />estag" must become "[[Bund]]es­tag". > > > > > > We could introduce new syntax for this, such as &nope; or even > &nowiki;. > > > > > > Or how about {{}} for "this is a syntactic element, but it does > nothing"? > > > But if > > > that is mixed in with template expansion, it won't work if it expands > to > > > nothing, since template expansion happens before link parsing, right? > For > > > better > > > or worse... > > > > > > -- > > > Daniel Kinzler > > > Principal Software Engineer, MediaWiki Platform > > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
