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Support colon in meta directive name

#281 Support colon in meta directive name

Status: closed-fixed

Owner: David Goodger

Labels: None

Priority: 5

Updated: 2020-03-03

Created: 2015-07-11

Creator: Markus Zapke-Gründemann

Private: No

Currently using a colon in a meta directive name produces an error. Twitter Cards and Open Graph use colons in their names. An example for Twitter Cards could look like this:

.. meta::
    :twitter:card: summary
    :twitter:site: @nytimesbits
    :twitter:creator: @nickbilton

Unfortunately this raises an "Invalid meta directive." error. Is there a possibility to escape the colons? Adding a backslash in front of the middle colon raises no error but the backslash is not removed when rendering the HTML and ends up in the document.

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David Goodger - 2017-08-16

status: open --> closed-fixed

assigned_to: David Goodger
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David Goodger - 2017-08-16

Fixed in r8169. You can use a backslash to escape the colons. But here the embedded colons are unambiguous so I enabled their use without backslash-escapes as well.

Sorry for the long delay. This was recently brought to my attention. Thanks for the bug report!

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