Simple span element support

[rawnsley]

Initial checklist

• I read the support docs
• I read the contributing guide
• I agree to follow the code of conduct
• I searched issues and discussions and couldn’t find anything (or linked relevant results below)

Problem

Does this plug-in support parsing the simple span element syntax that is proposed as part of the generic directives proposal? For example:

hello [world]{.myClass}

I'm aware of the unit tests that imply the scope of supported tags. They don't include this form and my own testing also suggests that it isn't supported, but I may be missing a trick.

Current solutions

The other inline directive syntax is working:

:name[content]{key=val}

but it's a little bit heavy for my taste.

Proposed solutions

Even if this form isn't going to be supported, it might at least be useful to have a definitive list of supported and unsupported forms in the readme, particularly as it appears to differ from the original proposal, which is itself a rather ambiguous document.

[wooorm]

Hi! Nope, similarly to “Identifier Registry” I think those items are not the essence but “further ideas”.

• I don’t think “generic directives” should be tied to HTML (div, span).
• I think it is a very different syntax (no colons); I think it is bad that it isn’t :[world]{.myClass}.

definitive list of supported and unsupported forms in the readme

How definitive is definitive? The Syntax section tries to be that

[rawnsley]

Thanks for the quick response.

Happy to yield on support for the simplified format in favour of the more consistent colon-based format.

I missed the relevance of that Syntax section and I think something like this small change might make it a bit clearer.

[github-actions]

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