Is there any way to comment out text in textile?

Question

LaTeX has %, html has <\!-- to denote that a comment folows.

Does textile have anyway of commenting out text? I couldn't find one, and it seems like it would be a nice feature to have.

Roselleroselyn

Answer 1

Not really. It seems you can do a single line HTML escape sequence containing an HTML comment which is passed through. But you probably want something more like the C Preprocessor comments that are simply stripped out completely?

==<!-- html comment -->==

Or you could do this, which outputs a multiline html comment, but I doubt it's what you want either:

notextile.  <!-- test 
test
test
-->

Minefield

For me in the future, the solution <notextile><!-- comment goes here --></notextile> worked for multi-paragraph comments. – Tubman

Answer 2

The TextPattern version of Textile does support comments.

The syntax is to have a line beginning with three hashes and one or two full stops.

###. This line will be treated as a comment.
So will this.

This line will be displayed.

###.. Blank lines are allowed in comments if you use two full stops.

This line is also a comment.

p. Starting a new block will end the comment.

Currently, the RedCloth and Mylyn implementations of Textile do not support these comments.

Wed