Re: [Boost-docs] The beauty of LATEX

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] The beauty of LATEX
From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-26 23:35:51

On 10/27/2011 5:54 AM, Daniel James wrote:
> On 26 October 2011 15:07, Joel de Guzman <joel_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> Then again, I am not sure how that is related to the wiki
>> blocks and phrases question at all.
> 
> I was trying to move away from blocks and phrases because that was
> going nowhere. If that's all you wish to discuss then I don't think
> I've got anything more to add.

I don't think it is going nowhere. Let me rewind:

Matias said:

> Because this kind of interaction between the template system and the
> wiki processor is not very clean, maybe we could solve this problem by
> saying that the wiki processor will consider that any lines that are
> wrapped by a template are not considered a paragraph.
> 
>   This is a [*paragraph].
> 
>   [custom_section This is not]
> 
> The only thing that it will change for the user is that he will have
> to wrap this kind of lines:
> 
>   [custom_bold This is not a paragraph]
> 
> with a [para ...] template:
> 
>   [para [custom_bold Now it is]]
> 
> We can even avoid this for the common standard templates like [* ...].
> 
> This could simplify a lot the logic of the wiki processor (and its
> interaction with the template system) at the cost of changing the
> behavior of what I think are corner cases.

Which makes sense, really. It is simple and easy to explain.
Then you replied:

> If anyone doesn't realise, I proposed a 'block' element in another
> thread to deal with this issue.

So I asked for an explanation how it would help. But then you bundled
it up with other unrelated issues and in the end I didn't really
get an answer.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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