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From: Mark Szepieniec <mszepien@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Permissible characters in ConTeXt reference labels
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2014 00:06:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAE4-1rWNfBh7A3sRgSs2xV61Pc-jqDXY1DcO9_hcSL5AsgGaVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE4-1rVn7gf-9URqN5Zk8GiG7ujZh2RR8t=f6e2ki9hJ+Lk1xg@mail.gmail.com>


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Bump...

If it's not too much trouble, I would greatly appreciate some feedback on
this before I propose it to be merged into pandoc; even a "looks good to
me" from one of the ConTeXt gurus would be very helpful.

Thanks in advance,

Mark

On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 12:20 AM, Mark Szepieniec <mszepien@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to fix a problem in pandoc (see
> https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/pull/1589) where it doesn't properly
> sanitize the reference labels in ConTeXt output, causing errors during
> compilation when a label contains '#' for example. Note that this
> sanitizing is needed in addition to the regular backslash escaping used for
> control characters: '\#' is still illegal in a label for example.
>
> In the sanitizer function I'm writing, I'd like to properly escape all
> illegal characters, but I couldn't find an explicit list of allowed or
> illegal characters. Based on some testing I've conducted (see attached
> file), I've arrived at the following set:
>
> \#[]",{}%()|=
>
> 1) Does this look like a reasonable set? Are there other characters or
> sequences that should be included, or are worth testing?
>
> 2) I was told (see
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/tYpXMUkmbEY) that
> if the characters " and , didn't work, it would count as a ConTeXt bug, is
> there any truth to that? Please let me know if any further info is needed
> on my part.
>
> 3) Does anyone see issues with this general approach? I'm relatively new
> to ConTeXt, so I might be missing either a huge problem, or an obviously
> easier way to do this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-17 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 22:20 Mark Szepieniec
2014-09-17 22:06 ` Mark Szepieniec [this message]
2014-09-17 22:18   ` Hans Hagen
2014-09-18  2:26     ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-09-18 12:39       ` Mark Szepieniec

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