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| author | wiemann <wiemann@929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04> | 2005-11-21 19:50:32 +0000 |
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| committer | wiemann <wiemann@929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04> | 2005-11-21 19:50:32 +0000 |
| commit | ccac3b33bd345ea21e0cbbda824f99ddcf11adb1 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a14f4788a71db511fa58f6c2efc6ca119550b98 | |
| parent | 656b4fab28abdf9a2d3361c385fd20b313fd114d (diff) | |
| download | docutils-ccac3b33bd345ea21e0cbbda824f99ddcf11adb1.tar.gz | |
updated spec to reflect that escaped colons inside of field
names are now allowed; added history entry
git-svn-id: http://svn.code.sf.net/p/docutils/code/trunk/docutils@4092 929543f6-e4f2-0310-98a6-ba3bd3dd1d04
| -rw-r--r-- | HISTORY.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.txt | 19 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/HISTORY.txt b/HISTORY.txt index f6bcc741b..dbe1920ac 100644 --- a/HISTORY.txt +++ b/HISTORY.txt @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Changes Since 0.3.9 - Fixed bug with escaped colons indicating a literal block. - Fixed bug with enumerated lists (SF#1254145). + - Backslash-escaped colons inside of field names are now allowed. - Targets (implicit and explicit), anonymous hyperlink references and auto-numbered footnote references inside of substitution definitions are now disallowed. diff --git a/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.txt b/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.txt index d503d9054..e0cee6031 100644 --- a/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.txt +++ b/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.txt @@ -813,15 +813,16 @@ see `Bibliographic Fields`_ below, or the "image_" and "meta_" directives in `reStructuredText Directives`_. Field lists are mappings from field names to field bodies, modeled on -RFC822_ headers. A field name is made up of one or more letters, -numbers, whitespace, and punctuation, except colons (":"). Inline -markup is parsed in field names. Field names are case-insensitive -when further processed or transformed. The field name, along with a -single colon prefix and suffix, together form the field marker. The -field marker is followed by whitespace and the field body. The field -body may contain multiple body elements, indented relative to the -field marker. The first line after the field name marker determines -the indentation of the field body. For example:: +RFC822_ headers. A field name may consist of any characters, but +colons (":") inside of field names must be escaped with a backslash. +Inline markup is parsed in field names. Field names are +case-insensitive when further processed or transformed. The field +name, along with a single colon prefix and suffix, together form the +field marker. The field marker is followed by whitespace and the +field body. The field body may contain multiple body elements, +indented relative to the field marker. The first line after the field +name marker determines the indentation of the field body. For +example:: :Date: 2001-08-16 :Version: 1 |