a nice to have: LT metacharacter description page
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1gangleri
Dear friends;
Neither /search_talk.php?searchbox=metacharacter nor WikiThing (LT) search=metacharacter provides useful links to a LT metacharacter description page.
a) I did run into a problem a while ago inserting VERTICAL LINE (U+007C) followed by LESS-THAN SIGN (U+003C) iinstead of two VERTICAL LINE's in a title ( I liked to mark the article in a construct as « Die ||leeren Bücher » ) because of a lousy keyboard.
What happened was that the information following VERTICAL LINE + LESS-THAN SIGN was lost and an erroneous record was added to LT.
b) I noticed that import does not imports information containing LESS-THAN SIGN (U+003C) foo GREATER-THAN SIGN (U+003E) syntax .
Example: please compare http://lccn.loc.gov/27008133 with http://www.librarything.com/work/6246096/editions
c) many metacharacters have a special meaning in
c1) recommended book title syntax. I did not search / find such a topic / page about « title » : « subtitle » ... « volume details » / « transliteration of these » syntax so far.
c2) In « Common Knowledge » in general and in information about series (which should be keeped simple) metacharacters have a special meaning.
Probably it would be best to have a WikiThing (LT) page which would be easier to update and watch the changes via history and diff functionality.
Thanks for any help in advance! Reinhardt
P.S. 2012-03-29 adding keyword
☛ "MetaCharacter"S
Neither /search_talk.php?searchbox=metacharacter nor WikiThing (LT) search=metacharacter provides useful links to a LT metacharacter description page.
a) I did run into a problem a while ago inserting VERTICAL LINE (U+007C) followed by LESS-THAN SIGN (U+003C) iinstead of two VERTICAL LINE's in a title ( I liked to mark the article in a construct as « Die ||leeren Bücher » ) because of a lousy keyboard.
What happened was that the information following VERTICAL LINE + LESS-THAN SIGN was lost and an erroneous record was added to LT.
b) I noticed that import does not imports information containing LESS-THAN SIGN (U+003C) foo GREATER-THAN SIGN (U+003E) syntax .
Example: please compare http://lccn.loc.gov/27008133 with http://www.librarything.com/work/6246096/editions
c) many metacharacters have a special meaning in
c1) recommended book title syntax. I did not search / find such a topic / page about « title » : « subtitle » ... « volume details » / « transliteration of these » syntax so far.
c2) In « Common Knowledge » in general and in information about series (which should be keeped simple) metacharacters have a special meaning.
Probably it would be best to have a WikiThing (LT) page which would be easier to update and watch the changes via history and diff functionality.
Thanks for any help in advance! Reinhardt
P.S. 2012-03-29 adding keyword
☛ "MetaCharacter"S
2lorax
A less-than sign gets interpreted as the start of an HTML tag. Anything between there and the next greater-than sign gets irretrievably eaten.
If you want to put a literal < in your post, the syntax is an ampersand (&) followed by the letters "lt" and a semicolon. That won't work in titles, though. (If I understand you correctly, though, that was just a typo.)
This is especially annoying in long Talk posts, but it's just how it works.
If you want to put a literal < in your post, the syntax is an ampersand (&) followed by the letters "lt" and a semicolon. That won't work in titles, though. (If I understand you correctly, though, that was just a typo.)
This is especially annoying in long Talk posts, but it's just how it works.
