Re: [Python-markdown-discuss] Em-dash extension

Waylan,

This addressed my problem exactly; thank you.

Regards,
Kalle

1.5.2015, 3:27, Waylan Limberg kirjoitti:
> Kalle,
>
> Sorry for the delayed response.
>
> You may be interested to know that the Smarty Extension [1] exists 
> which already implements what you are trying to achieve along with all 
> the various other parts of SmartyPants.
>
> However, if you would prefer to not have all of SmartyPants, but only 
> your specific feature, then you need to be aware that HTML entities 
> (like `—`) are considered raw HTML and will get escaped by the 
> serializer when you insert them into an ElementTree Element. 
> Therefore, you will need to avoid them going through the serializer, 
> which can be accomplished with the HtmlStash [2], an instance of which 
> is available at `self.markdown.htmlStash` within an Inlinepattern. 
> Note that you will want to pass you HTML entity to the `store` method 
> which will return a placeholder. Your `handleMatch` method will then 
> need to return that placeholder. Something like this:
>
> def handleMatch(self, m):
> placeholder = self.markdown.htmlStash.store('—')
> return placeholder
>
> Then, after the ElementTree is serialized, the parser will go through 
> the entire document and swap out all the placeholders for the raw HTML 
> in the stash.
>
> I hope this helps.
> Waylan Limberg
> [1]: https://pythonhosted.org/Markdown/extensions/smarty.html
> [2]: https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown/blob/master/markdown/util.py#L131
>
> On Apr 29, 2015, at 07:57 AM, Kalle Rutanen 
> <kal...@ho...> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to extend Python Markdown so that --- would be converted to
>> an em-dash. For this, I built up an inline-pattern which matches --, and
>> returns "&mdash;" from handleMatch(). Unfortunately, this gets to
>> converted to "&amp;mdash;" by Python Markdown. How can I get the &mdash;
>> through without changes?
>>
>> Kalle
>>
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