[textile] What if I don't want Textile parsed in only PART of my article?

WebKat · 2012-03-20 13:21:08

I have a problem that comes up frequently, for example, I make a sentence that has an asterisk in it, and then at the bottom of the page is the asterisk and footnote that goes along with it.

Currently, if I put [asterisk] [space] [text] I get a one-item bulleted list. If I put [asterisk] [text] it makes it bold, along with everything on the page afterward…

But I want to use Textile for 99% of the rest of my articles… is there a <notxp> tag or something that I can put around areas I don’t want parsed? Apologies if this is in the faq somewhere—I did a search but I’m running close to the edge on getting to work on time so I can’t spend much time looking.

Thanks in advance for any help or ideas!

jakob · 2012-03-20 13:27:29

You can start a line with a blank space or with:

notextile. This line won't be textiled

but that cancels out the rest of the line. Another simple way of getting around your problem is to do:

%*% Wrapping your leading asterisk in %-signs puts a span around the asterisk but _doesn't_ create a bullet point and allows textile in the rest of the line.

which produces this:

* Wrapping your leading asterisk in %-signs puts a span around the asterisk but doesn’t create a bullet point and allows textile in the rest of the line.

Try it out here

philwareham · 2012-03-20 13:36:37

You can also do Textile footnotes (though I think they are numerical, not asterisk), more here.

Bloke · 2012-03-20 13:40:22

Or use named notes:

This is my sentence and this bit[#starred] is important

Then somewhere nearby, or anywhere in your content, you can put the definition of that starred note:

note#starred. My definition and its optional "web reference":http://reference.com/whatever 20 March 2012

You can add as many [#some-name] things as you like and define each one wherever and however you wish. Then to bring it all together, at the bottom just add:

notelist.

to display all notes along with back-reference hyperlinks to the actual place(s) they’re referenced.

There are a host of controls you can use to determine which characters get used, whether you want back and forward links, or none at all, etc. All documented at the link jakob gave. If you’re only using one note, it’s probably overkill, but for many references in a single article, or those times when you cite the same source multiple times, it’s very handy.

EDIT: the next version of Textile is going to have more support for wacky reference characters such as spade, club, dagger, etc. For now you have to make do with english or greek or some other natural language.

Last edited by Bloke (2012-03-20 13:48:21)

Gocom · 2012-03-20 14:31:26

jakob wrote:

[…] * Wrapping your leading asterisk in %-signs puts a span around the asterisk but doesn’t create a bullet point and allows textile in the rest of the line.

Or you could just escape it with the inline equivalent of your mentioned notextile., ==string==. I.e.

==*== I'm a star -- I mean an _asterisk_.

No list, no span.

Last edited by Gocom (2012-03-20 14:33:41)

WebKat · 2012-03-20 15:06:30

Cool, thanks for the answers, guys.

Putting a blank space before the asterisk was the first thing I tried, by the way, and what it did was end up putting the contents of that line at the end of the line above it.

In this specific case, I am entering club setlists and the asterisk isn’t for a footnote, but rather to denote requested songs, and the format I get is like this:

MIDNIGHT Set List -- March 10, 2012
* = request; (v) = video

DJ VLAD -- 9:00-9:45
Austra -- The Beat and the Pulse
Binary Park -- My Angel
Zola Jesus -- Vessel*
Terrolokaust -- The Pain of Knowing
Diary of Dreams -- She
Mind.In.A.Box -- Sanctuary*
Cryo -- Substance...etc

When I tried

MIDNIGHT Set List -- March 10, 2012
 *= request; (v) = video

DJ VLAD -- 9:00-9:45
Austra -- The Beat and the Pulse
Binary Park -- My Angel
Zola Jesus -- Vessel*
Terrolokaust -- The Pain of Knowing
Diary of Dreams -- She
Mind.In.A.Box -- Sanctuary*
Cryo -- Substance

it ended up coming out like this:

MIDNIGHT Set List — March 10, 2012 *= request; (v) = video
.
DJ VLAD — 9:00-9:45
Austra — The Beat and the Pulse
Binary Park — My Angel
Zola Jesus — Vessel*
Terrolokaust — The Pain of Knowing
Diary of Dreams — She
Mind.In.A.Box — Sanctuary*
Cryo — Substance

So let me test this fancy == thing…

MIDNIGHT Set List — March 10, 2012
* = request; (v) = video
.
DJ VLAD — 9:00-9:45
Austra — The Beat and the Pulse
Binary Park — My Angel
Zola Jesus — Vessel*
Terrolokaust — The Pain of Knowing
Diary of Dreams — She
Mind.In.A.Box — Sanctuary*
Cryo — Substance…etc

Woohoo! Thanks, guys! That works great! And that footnote thing I will definitely look into because that could be quite handy in other situations.

(I put the . in the blank line so the blockquote wouldn’t end—is there a way to have block quote with paragraph breaks in it? If I put a second bq. it puts a second box around the next paragraph, instead of keeping it as one blockquote…)

merz1 · 2012-03-20 15:15:45

is there a way to have block quote with paragraph breaks in it?

The double dot helps in many cases: bq.., bc.., (…?)

But you must end bq.. manually eg by starting the next not quoted paragraph explicitly with p..

jakob · 2012-03-20 15:32:37

==*== I'm a star -- I mean an _asterisk_.

Thanks for reminding me of that Jukka – that’s much better and just as easy.

philwareham · 2012-03-20 18:31:33

@bloke

I’d never known about Textile named notes before – good stuff. Is it quite new?

jstubbs · 2012-03-21 00:17:58

More in the TXP Tips article for your reference. Looks like we’ll need to revisit this article given the new version of Textile.

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