Re: Update CSS class identifier normalization

Guenter Milde via Docutils-develop <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.docutils.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear Sarah,

On 2024-03-25, Sarah Johnson wrote:

> Hi! Thank you all for your work on docutils!

> I've recently started using Plausible for analytics tracking. Unfortunately
> their naming schema for custom events is incompatible with docutils CSS
> class normalization, since Plausible relies on either "=" or "--" for
> naming custom events (plausible docs
><https://plausible.io/docs/custom-event-goals#you-can-also-add-class-names-directly-in-html>
> ).

> Reading through the rationale for the chosen normalization
><https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#identifier-normalization>,
> why is "=" excluded? Would an update ever be considered where "=" was
> allowed in class names for docutils?

I see your case. There is a similar request regarding the element identifiers
https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/66/,
I added your use case there.

Thanks for asking,
Günter



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