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#1 2006-01-27 04:56:04
- marknumberm
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Style part of an article title
I often need to italicize just a few words within my article titles, such when an article title refers to the title of a book.
However, ‘<code><cite></code>The Rights of Man<code></cite></code> by Thomas Paine’ gets published as ‘<code><cite></code>The Rights of Man<code></cite></code> by Thomas Paine’. It doesn’t italicize the words that have the tag around them.
Same thing when I use textile underscores or double question marks or the <code><i></code> tag.
Any way to remedy this?
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Re: Style part of an article title
You may have a problem there. I don’t believe “titles” are textiled and I also think HTML tags are a none-starter too. I was wondering whether you could put your titles into the article itself and adjust your form, or have a second form, to not use the “title block”? The only thing I can’t get my imagination around is whether it would link to the “individual_article” view properly. I think it should provided you get the URL right. All I can suggest is that you give it a try.
Last edited by thebombsite (2006-01-27 11:45:36)
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#3 2006-01-27 12:18:06
- Anark
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Re: Style part of an article title
Is there a good reason why Textile doesn’t parse titles?
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Not being one of the devs I can’t be 100% but it may have something to do with the “permlink” and producing a properly formatted URL.
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#5 2006-01-27 14:06:13
- marknumberm
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Re: Style part of an article title
Well, this stinks.
It seems to me that this is an issue that would have come up before. But I can’t find anything any where.
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#6 2006-01-27 14:19:26
- Anark
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Re: Style part of an article title
It rather looks like an oversight to me.
Wordpress manages to pull off italics and curly apostrophes in post titles while outputting non-crufty URLs based on such titles.
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#7 2006-01-27 14:23:42
- Anark
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Go for it. :) It would be nice not to have to use “plain” titles.
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#9 2006-01-28 02:19:05
- marknumberm
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Re: Style part of an article title
I reported it.
Anark and Thebombsite, please take a look to make sure I got the details right.
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#10 2006-01-29 16:25:37
- kiplet
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Re: Style part of an article title
I would like very much to second, third, and fourth this request. I need to be able to use all manner of unicode and html elements in my article titles—punctuation marks, emphasis, bolding, line breaks. Other blogging software I’ve used has parsed them with little to no effort, though WordPress peculiarly chokes on quotes in a tag in the title, so anything calling a CSS class is right out, but still: they can handle them with no problem and dirify them for building links and suchlike.
Not having the ability to style titles or parts of titles is a severe lack, from my own particular style-over-substance point of view. It’s pretty much a deal-breaker. Is there any sort of hack or workaround or plugin?
(What’s <em>really</em> annoying is the markup previews appropriately in the article preview window, and it shows up just as it should on any admin lists. So me, behind the scenes, I can see it all properly and it looks fine. But on the front page where it should be pretty it all goes kerflooey.)
(Aha! Okay, so I need to revert back to 4.0.1 and use <a href=“http://forum.textpattern.com/viewtopic.php?id=12285”>these plugins</a>. Until, at least, it’s addressed in a more official fashion. —Off to figure out how to revert…)
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#11 2006-01-29 16:55:54
- marknumberm
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Re: Style part of an article title
Hi, Kiplet.
If you wouldn’t mind, please take a second to log your concerns on the feature request post I made on this topic. I think it’s good for it all to be assembled together.
As far as a plug-in or hack, it looks as though there is not any work-around of any kind right now.
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#12 2006-01-29 17:03:57
- kiplet
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Re: Style part of an article title
Yeah, I posted there too, thanks. And I edited my comment above. It looks like you used to could do it, and now I’m off to figure out how to revert until someone more officially tweaks the code.
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