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   • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
   • CommentTimeJan 5th 2010
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   Author: Andrew Stacey
   Format: MarkdownWhat with trying to upgrade instiki to use ruby1.9 I've been keeping a closer eye on the logs than usual and noticing some common errors. The main one being square brackets. As these get used for so many different things in itex and markdown and instiki, it's easy to get them wrong and really confuse the formatter (poor thing). So 1. Only use square brackets for formatting commands. If you really must have square brackets showing, use entities ([ for [ and ] for ]). 2. Make sure that you balance your square brackets. Starting with a double open and ending with a single close is really confusing for the poor formatter. (Unfortunately, the formatter (maruku) currently sends its error messages to a really daft place where it's hard to tell exactly what page generated them. That makes it hard for me to track down and fix these myself.)

   What with trying to upgrade instiki to use ruby1.9 I've been keeping a closer eye on the logs than usual and noticing some common errors. The main one being square brackets. As these get used for so many different things in itex and markdown and instiki, it's easy to get them wrong and really confuse the formatter (poor thing). So

   1. Only use square brackets for formatting commands. If you really must have square brackets showing, use entities ([ for [ and ] for ]).
   2. Make sure that you balance your square brackets. Starting with a double open and ending with a single close is really confusing for the poor formatter.

   (Unfortunately, the formatter (maruku) currently sends its error messages to a really daft place where it's hard to tell exactly what page generated them. That makes it hard for me to track down and fix these myself.)