Re: showing comments in HTML

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On Thu, 14 Oct 1999, Xose Manoel Ramos wrote:

> El Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 11:10:02PM +0200, Denis Barbier contaba:
> 
> >Hash signs are not welcome within WML ;-)
> >Lines beginning with this char are removed in pass 8 _and_ pass 1.
> >So try <protect pass=1,8>
> 
> I have to agree with you, finally I decided using
> 
>    s/#/\&#035;/g
>
> in my editor, so I will have no more a "#" but just the entity that
> shows that character. Now it works pretty fine.
> Well, I had to change the `verbatim' macro to don't change my
> "&#035;" to "&amp;#035;", but I suppose this is a `personal hack' and
> there is no need to include it in the WML distribution.
> 
> Or I should have used "\#" and forget in fiddling with `verbatim'? 

Hmmm, without the <verbatim> tag, ampersands and angle brackets in input
could cause unexpected results.

I see 2 solutions:
1) insert code with the <verbatim-file> tag or
2) write
    <protect=1><verbatim>
     your code here
    </verbatim></protect> 

If you prefer modifying input lines, i suggest
    s/^\([ 	]*\)#/\1\#/
          ^^ space and tab

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer


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