Thanks! But unfortunately that didn't work :-(. But in any case you did indirectly get me to a solution, as your comment about rendering got me to thinking. The trick with the HTML markup is to replace the <'s and >'s with < and >, respectively. For example: <a href="http://www.zope.org">Zope Rocks!</a> Would become <a href="http://www.zope.org">Zope Rocks!</a> This also works with my example, so: "Zope":http://blah.blah ... becomes "Zope":http://blah.blah ... Ugly for the writer, indeed, but pretty(-er) for the reader (and that's all that counts, right?). Ciao, John

-----Original Message----- From: Pam Crosby [SMTP:pam@digicool.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 1999 1:26 PM To: 'Miller, John M.' Subject: RE: [ZDP] Bending Structured Text to My Will

Hi John,

I had the same problem trying to get sample html code to show up in structure text online. Also tried all (double ::, white spaces, <code></code>). What worked for the difficult passages was to use <pre></pre> around the text. The problem is the web browser is rendering the "http: ..." not the structured text.

...

with the following segment:

- Text encoded by double quotes followed by a colon, a URL, and concluded by punctuation plus white space, *or* just white space, is treated as a hyper link. For example:

"Zope":http://www.zope.org/ is ...

Is interpreted as '<a href="http://www.zope.org/">Zope</a> is ....'<br> Note: This works for relative as well as absolute URLs.

No amount of cajoling on my part will get the "Zope":http://www.zope.org/ bit to appear as is. I've tried several permutations of surrounding the text with single quotes. I've even tried surrounding the text with <code></code>. All to no avail. Any suggestions, anyone. Pretty please?

TIA, John

Let me know if that helps.

--Pam Pamela Crosby

Technical Writer mailto:pam@digicool.com Digital Creations http://www.digicool.com