# Textile in Radiant **URL:** \ **Category:** Radiant CMS\ **Created:** [June 6, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706 "2008-06-06T06:43:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 6:43am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/1 "2008-06-06T06:43:43Z")
Does anybody know why textile wants to wrap a string of capital letters with a tag? Or know how to keep it from happening? Why’s textile reference doesn’t mention anything about this “feature”. ~Nate ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/2 "2008-06-06T08:54:52Z")
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 6:43 AM, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: Does anybody know why textile wants to wrap a string of capital letters > with a tag? Or know how to keep it from happening? > Why’s textile reference doesn’t mention anything about this “feature”. > **[Textpattern CMS user documentation](https://docs.textpattern.com)** > > Complete documentation on how to install and use the Textpattern Content Management System. – Sincerely, Bjorn Michelsen ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/3 "2008-06-06T15:07:16Z")
Well… As the link explains, the ‘caps’ span is there so that we can style acronyms. This is very strange to me. How come the people who implementet this didn’t use the already existing tag in HTML for this? > **[HTML acronym tag](https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_acronym.asp)** > > W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more. Regards Thomas W. [http://justaddwater.dk/](http://justaddwater.dk/) ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/4 "2008-06-06T15:15:33Z")
Thomas W. Steen said the following on 06/06/08 09:05 AM: > Well… As the link explains, the ‘caps’ span is there so that we can > style acronyms. This is very strange to me. How come the people who > implementet this didn’t use the already existing tag in > HTML for this? > > [HTML acronym tag](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_acronym.asp) Possibly because its not forward compatible: [http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5\_acronym.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/html5_acronym.asp) – You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost at Mach 3. – Paul F Crickmore ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 5:28pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/5 "2008-06-06T17:28:45Z")
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 08:16 -0500, Sean C. wrote: > Thomas, > > I agree, but perhaps not everything in caps would be an . You > can achieve the effect by putting something in parentheses > after the term. Example: But, however, if I don’t want to use an acronym for something like a TV station’s call letters, KLBT, which isn’t an acronym for anything, then I have to add a style for a .caps class or add a title to behave like an acronym. I had never seen this in Textile before. I thought it was something Radiant specific, but this was apparently of Why’s doing. I’ll just work around it. Thanks. ~Nate ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/6 "2008-06-06T15:17:20Z")
Thomas, I agree, but perhaps not everything in caps would be an . You can achieve the effect by putting something in parentheses after the term. Example: HTML(HyperText Markup Language) produces HTML Sean ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2008, 9:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/7 "2008-06-06T21:11:35Z")
Read the RedCloth rdoc. There’s a no\_span\_caps restriction/accessor in both 3.0.4 and the forthcoming 4.0. ---
**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2008, 4:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/textile-in-radiant/139706/8 "2008-06-07T04:06:14Z")
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 15:11 -0400, Jason G. wrote: > Read the RedCloth rdoc. There’s a no\_span\_caps restriction/accessor > in both 3.0.4 and the forthcoming 4.0. Thanks. I’ll look into it. ~Nate