[TxMt] how do I confine a begin-end pattern to within a single paragraph?

[Matt Neuburg]

I'm still trying to get started writing my bundle, but I can't even get the first two rules to work...

AsciiDoc marks bold like *this*, but I don't want this to work across paragraph boundaries. I've started by arbitrarily dividing the document into paragraphs:

	patterns = (
		{	name = 'punctuation.test';
			begin = '^';
			end = '$';
		},
	);

I've marked 'punctuation.test' as red, so I can see that this is working.

====

This is a paragraph

And this is a different paragraph

====

In the repository, I also define bold; the real pattern is quite involved, but let's pretend it's very simple, like this:

	repository = {
		single_bold = {
			name = 'markup.bold.asciidoc';
			begin = '\*';
			end = '\*';
		};
	};

Now I include single_bold in my punctuation.test paragraph, by changing the patterns to look like this:

	patterns = (
		{	name = 'punctuation.test';
			begin = '^';
			end = '$';
			patterns = (
				{	include = '#single_bold'; },
			);
		},
	);

This screws everything up. Yes, it works on expressions like *this*. But it also works across paragraph boundaries:

====

Like *this

it boldifies* across paragraphs.

====

That is exactly what I wanted to prevent! What is happening, as I can see from my red "punctuation.test", is that including #single_bold in punctuation.test is actually changing the meaning of punctuation.test! Instead of stopping after "Like *this", the way it did before, punctuation.test is now mysteriously extended to included multiple paragraphs.

What I want to do is give the paragraph definition _priority_ so that #single_bold only works _inside_ a paragraph; instead, including #single_bold is causing the paragraph definition to stop working correctly and is extending both itself and the paragraph definition across multiple paragraphs. How do I prevent that? Or how do I make a begin/end rule that doesn't cross line boundaries? Thanks! m.


--
matt neuburg, phd = matt at tidbits.com, http://www.apeth.net/matt/
pantes anthropoi tou eidenai oregontai phusei
Programming iOS 7! http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920031017.do
iOS 7 Fundamentals! http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920032465.do
RubyFrontier! http://www.apeth.com/RubyFrontierDocs/default.html
TidBITS, Mac news and reviews since 1990, http://www.tidbits.com