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    • Formatting of monospaced text

    Posted by Atticus0307 posts: 7

    Hi!

    According to the manual, you need to surround monospaced text with "-+" and "+-".
    I wonder why it's necessary to put an additional whitespace before the starting tag. Is there a reason for this?

    Example:
    If I write: "You should call -+intValue()+- in ...." then that comes out as:
    "You should callintValue() in ...." with "intValue()" monospaced. Note the missing space.

    I am asking because it is pretty annoying having to put two whitespaces before monospaced text so that one is displayed.

    Thanks,

    Sascha

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    Posted by Atticus0307 posts: 7

    Hi!

    Since no one cares to answer, I did some more digging in the PHP files myself (and I am a Java developer!).

    The bug is in tikilib.php, line 6467.
    It reads:

    // Replace monospaced text
    $line = preg_replace("/(^|\s)-\+(.*?)\+-/", "< code >$2< /code >", $line);


    Obviously, the first group captures the whitespace. Wouldn't it better to replace with "$1< code >$2< /code >" to preserve the whitespace if there is one?!

    Sascha