URL in italic

[Kluwe]

Hello,
when formating an URL in the form of http://www.example.com into the italic style, after the page refresh it changes into http:www.example.com//.

Zim 0.65 on windows 7,10 x64

[mtibbi (marcio-tibirica)]

Hi David,

This is not a bug, but a consequence of the wiki markup which is underlying Zim page.

The markup syntax for italics uses double slashes at the beginning and the ending of the sentence, for example: //text in italics//.
You can try this copying the example above into a Zim page and pressing <Ctrl>+<R> to refresh the view and see the result.

When you apply italics markup in a web address such as http://www.example.com, a problem arises because the double slashes before www are interpreted as markup symbols as well. You get the following raw text:
//http://www.example.com//. As a result only http: will be rendered as italics and the rest will be left as normal text, plus extra 2 slashes at the end.

A possible workaround for this issue, which is not perfect, nor elegant, is to type additional 4 slashes before www, for example: //http://////www.example.com//. Try this to see the result.

You can get more information on Zim wiki markup syntax and conventions in the Zim help page:
http://zim-wiki.org/manual/Help/Wiki_Syntax.html