Re: verbatim and substitution of #

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2000, Werner Heuser wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> when I use
> 
> #use wml::fmt::verbatim
> 
> <verbatim>
> &num;
> or
> #
> </verbatim>
> 
> I get undesired results in both cases. Since the
> verbatim tag is very convienient, I would like to use it with
> commented shellscript source in HTML pages, too.
> 
> I dare to make some solutions:
> - mentioning this behaviour in the man page explicitly
> - new tag <verbatim_extended> which also changes # to &num; entity
> - other, maybe I have overlooked something

Hi Werner,

there is indeed a problem with the sharp sign i must document: it is
discarded in pass 1, so you have to protect input with
<protect pass=1>
<verbatim>
&num;
or
#
</verbatim>
</protect>

You can't define <verbatim_extended> because the # sign is removed
before pass 2.

Where is defined this &num; entity ?

-- 
Denis Barbier
WML Maintainer

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