escape "--" in markup

[Tom Fernandes]

Hi,
Subject is topic...

How can I escape two dashes like in "--verbose" when inserting them into a
tiddler?

thanks,

Tom

[dawn ahukanna]

assuming you mean you don't want it "wikified":
1. enclosed the text with the following tags <nowiki> --verbose </nowiki>
2. place a tilde - "~" in front of the word e.g. ~--verbose
Dawn

[FND]

> assuming you mean you don't want it "wikified"

I believe the problem is that the two dashes result in strikethrough
formatting.
I've tried using <nowiki> on this, but it doesn't seem to work.

-- F.

[Tom Fernandes]

Hi,

> assuming you mean you don't want it "wikified":
> 1. enclosed the text with the following tags <nowiki> --verbose </nowiki>

works

> 2. place a tilde - "~" in front of the word e.g. ~--verbose

doesn't work - that's the one I initially tried :)

thanks!

Tom

[Eric Shulman]

> > 1. enclosed the text with the following tags <nowiki> --verbose </nowiki>

Although the TW parser supports use of the HTML-style syntax,

<nowiki>--verbose</nowiki>

the TW native wiki-style syntax is to surround the unformatted text
content with tripled double-quotes:

"""--verbose"""

I like to think of the tripled quotes as saying something like:
"Leave this content alone... and I really, really, mean it!! " :-)

IMO, the wiki-style syntax is much simpler to use (and perhaps more
intuitive than the HTML-style syntax, except for people who regularly
write HTML anyway). It uses fewer characters and is much less
visually-intrusive than all that <foo>...</foo> punctuation. It is
also consistent with other TW wiki syntax that uses tripled character
sequences, such as CODE/PRE blocks:
{{{...}}}
or inline sliders (using NestedSlidersPlugin)
+++[label]content===

-e
Eric Shulman
TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios

[dawn ahukanna]

Eric,
Good call. I always forget the triple double-quotes.

Dawn.

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