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28.0.50; rst-mode fill-paragraph broken in bullet-lists

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From: Stefan Merten <stefan <at> merten-home.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: Thomas Hisch <thomas.hisch <at> ims.co.at>, 46304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#46304: 28.0.50; rst-mode fill-paragraph broken in bullet-lists
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 16:44:54 +0200

Hi Lars, Thomas!

Last week (9 days ago) Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Thomas Hisch <thomas.hisch <at> ims.co.at> writes:
>
>> * asdfasf dafd sfkdkfaslfksdflk mdfa sdfsdf kldf a kdasfd asf
>>   :math:`\kappa` dfaskdflsdf dasfdfas df.
>> 
>> * asdfasf dafd sfkdkfaslfksdflk mdfa sdfsdf kldf a kdasfd asf kksadfo
>>   mmommmmmasd :math:`\kappa` dfaskdflsdf dasfdfas df.
> 
> (I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
> at the time.)

Thanks, I never saw that.

> I can reproduce this in Emacs 29, too -- it seems to be because :math:
> is matched by:
> 
>     (fld-tag ":" fldnam-tag ":") ; A field marker.

That is - on this level of syntax analysis - really an ambiguity in
the syntax of reStructuredText. See
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#field-lists

See the example. The line starting with ":Indentation:" is the same
case and the example indents it correctly.

I think you could resolve the ambiguity by suffixing the ":math:"
instead: "`\kappa`:math:" should work.

> I've added Stefan to the CCs; perhaps he has some comments.

Thanks a lot.

This is really a corner case. I'd say: Won't fix.


						Regards

						Stefan

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