Re: Inline markup status

Dear Martin,

On 2019-09-10, Martin Koutecký wrote:

> I would like to ask about the current status of the inline markup feature.
> I'm aware of the reported state here:
> http://docutils.sourceforge.net/FAQ.html#is-nested-inline-markup-possible
> but I'm also curious because it doesn't mention the effort described here:
> https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/22/ which seems to have
> gotten quite far. However, the patch doesn't apply against the current tree.

> For my purposes, it would suffice if we could have one level of nested
> inline markup: there are substitution references which serve for
> deduplication, but some occurrences of the strings are emphasized while
> other are not -- this is where I need nesting.

> Could you please give me a gauge of

> 1. How difficult would it be to port the patch in
> https://sourceforge.net/p/docutils/feature-requests/22/ to the current
> version?
> 2. What happened to that and the nesting branch?

Both are currently "sleeping". It may be interesting to revive them, but I
cannot tell how much work this would be.

> 3. If both above are useless / too hard, how difficult would it be to
> implement a "one level nesting" feature and whether you would be interested
> in including it, even though it falls short of the target described in the
> FAQ?

This may be a start but possibly not simpler than the original target of
recursive nesting.

Suggestions and patches are welcome, preferably in smaller steps so we can
discuss the changes "interactively".

Thanks,
Günter




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