Re: [Issue 200] Convert spaces to tabs

Well the discussion centers around using <noop> in place of <pre>--

<pre> should leave things formatted as they are in the source, and should switch to a fixed font. 

<noop> should not turn off currrent processing, but should hide additional processing commands for the scope of the <noop>.  But what about things like <eoln>?  If they are transmitted unchanged then HTML will swallow them.  If the lines are made to break with <br>, then <noop> is not really ignoring formatting commands and is inconsistent.

I'm inclined to say that either the scope of <noop> must be no larger than the current line (paragraph), or all contained processing commands (including <eoln>) should be ignored until </noop>. 

While we're talking about this, the phrase "<noop><b>not bolded</b></noop>" would be handled as expeced, but "<noop>Use <noop> and </noop> to suspend wiki processing</noop>" would not.  I suspect this has to be called correct behavior, right?

Paul

Daniel T. Gorski wrote:

On 22 Jun 10:25, PAUL HANCHETT wrote:

  

What is <noop> defined to *do*? 
    

<noop> was defined to do what it says: "no operation" while parsing the text...

Each character or any text enclosed in <noop>..</noop> was ment to be
completely ignored by the parser, even if its a part of the coWiki syntax.
Hence the first task for the parser to do, is (was?) to filter anything
between this directives and replace it originally after any other markup has
been processed. 

I did not read completely your recent discussion, and hope I don't look as a
jerk now :)

regards dtg

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