Allow ~'s to be arbitrarily placed without breaking things

[logankilpatrick]

I am a big fan of ~'s and whenever I add them, Franklin becomes unhappy if I forget to do /~. Is there a way to change this or add some sort fo safety measure so if you add them accidentally, it doesn't destroy Franklin?

[logankilpatrick]

Or is the issue the "$" in JuliaLang/www.julialang.org#1356 ?

[tlienart]

Hmm so for $ this is definitely not easy to do as it's ambiguous with math mode; we could disable math mode for some pages but it makes stuff more complex (though I'll think about it)

For ~ it's easier as currently the only ambiguity comes from the triple one ~~~ as long as we don't add the rule ~...~ for strike through (GitHub flavoured markdown).

In any case to answer your question: right now there is no path to just put ~, you have to escape it (part of my initial reasoning for this was also to mimic what is done in latex for such symbols).

In the future a user will probably be allowed to toggle which parsing rules they want to disable for a page (similar to what you can do with CommonMark) but right not that's not possible.

[tlienart]

by the way my message was wrong, ~ are fine to be included anywhere as long as there's not three of them, so for instance:

"abc~def" |> fd2html

it's mostly $, \, `, _ and * that need to be escaped to avoid confusion with respectively math blocks, latex blocks, code blocks and emphasis blocks.

I'll close this for now :)