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Debian Bug#500662 submitted by Ben Finney
Package: pandoc
Version: 0.46+2
Severity: normal

The reStructuredText specification allows for comment blocks of
arbitrary indented text
URL:http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#comments.

The following session shows that pandoc is incorrectly interpreting
these comment elements as some other kind of element.

Script started on Tue 30 Sep 2008 18:03:08 EST

$ infile=$(mktemp -t)
$ cat > $infile

Title of document

First paragraph

..
Comment block, should not appear in output
as defined by reStructuredText

Another paragraph

..
Another comment block.

This one spans severaltext elements.It doesn't end untilindentation is restored to thepreceding level.

A third paragraph

$ pandoc --from rst --to markdown $infile

Title of document

First paragraph

..
: Comment block, should not appear in output as defined by
reStructuredText

Another paragraph

..

Another comment block.

This one spans several text elements.

It doesn't end until indentation is restored to the preceding
level.

A third paragraph

$ rm $infile
$ exit

Script done on Tue 30 Sep 2008 18:07:49 EST

The above result is incorrect; instead the comment blocks in the input
should not be visible in the rendered form. For example, this would be
a correct rendering of the above example input:

Title of document

First paragraph

Another paragraph

A third paragraph

Google Code Info:
Issue #: 86
Author:fiddloso...@gmail.com
Created On: 2008-10-01T04:26:42.000Z
Closed On: 2008-11-06T22:10:44.000Z