Re: {quickbook] Footnotes

David Abrahams wrote:
> Well, as long as we're being slaves to the DocBook structure, why not
> have some standard syntax for new elements so we don't have to escape
> to XML or modify the QB grammar every time we want to do something
> new?  In fact, why isn't 
>
>       [xxx ... ]
>
> automatically equivalent to
>       
>       <xxx> .... </xxx>
>
> when xxx is not already given special meaning by QB?


An interesting idea. One concern would be that this could run amok and 
apply where people don't mean it to (like the ill-advised 
-strikethrough- syntax which we had to strike). Then again, if people 
are writing Qbk files, they have to be aware of the special-ness of 
square brackets anyway.

We would have to decide if these wildcards were treated as phrase-level 
or block-level constructs. Probably phrase-level.

It could create a back-compat problem, though. Imagine we had this 
feature, and people used it to get xyzzy support. Now when I added 
explicit support for xyzzy, I might break a whole bunch of Qbk files.

I think a better, saner way to do this might be like:

  [phrase:xyzzy Blah blah blah]

which would be treated as phrase-level markup and get expanded into:

  <xyzzy>Blah blah blah</xyzzy>

Comments?

--
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com


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