[Zope] RE: [ZDP] Bending Structured Text to My Will

[Miller, John M.]

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 &lt and
&gt, respectively.  For example:
	<a href="http://www.zope.org">Zope Rocks!</a>
Would become
	&lta href="http://www.zope.org"&gtZope Rocks!&lt/a&gt
This also works with my example, so:
	"Zope":http://blah.blah ...
becomes
            &quotZope&quot: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
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