Talk:Sotho tonology

message: If anyone knows how to deal with this issue then please fix the article. Below, is a sample of the intended wikicode for this article:
(perhaps you might like to look at the Wikicode for this text instead...)
-bonahala
  │
  H
An H verb stem ("see-able")
Each of the rules changes the associations in some way. For example, High Tone Doubling (HTD) causes the underlying H tone on the first syllable of the verb to also be linked to the syllable immediately to the right:
-bonahala
  ├─┘
  H
After HTD
In this article, the application of several rules in succession will be indicated with the following abbreviation:
-bonahala
  │ │      underlyingly
  H │
  ├─┘      HTD
  H
Two rules
 ===Some tonal rules===
High Tone Doubling
ba•a•bona
 │    │
 H    H	 ──────►HTD	
ba•a•bona
 ├─┘  ├─┘
 H    H
Iterative Tone Spread
ke•rekeletse
    │
    H	style="text-align:center"|  ──────►ITS	
ke•rekeletse
    ├─┴─┴──┘
    H
Right Branch Delinking
ba•a•bona
 ├─┘  ├─┘
 H    H	style="text-align:center"|  ──────►RBD	
ba•a•bona
 │    ├─┘
 H    H
Left Branch Delinking
ba•bona
 │  ├─┘
 H  H	style="text-align:center"|  ──────►LBD	
ba•bona
 │  ┌─┘
 H  H
The Finality Restriction
ke•a•rata
      ├─┘
      H
 
 ──────►FR
ke•a•rata
      │
      H
Low Tone Assignment
o•batlela
├──┘
H	style="text-align:center"|  ──────►LTA	
o•batlela
├──┘  │ │
H     L L
 ===Some examples===
 Underlying level (lexical tones)
  
   Verb roots (including melodies)
  
 
 Lexical level (rule assigned tones)
  
   Subject concords
   HTD
    
	 Verb roots
	 Subject concords
	
   
   OCP
    
	 RBD
	 LBD
	
   
  
 
 Postlexical level
  
   FR
   LTA
  
 
o•a•bina
│ │  │ │  underlyingly (H stem)
│ │  H │
│ │  │ │  subjectival concord
H │  H │
├─┤  ├─┤  HTD
H │  H │
│ │  ├─┤  RBD
H │  H │
│ │  │ │  FR
H │  H │
│ │  │ │  LTA
H L  H L
Constructing a word
o•a•bintsha
│ │  ││   │  underlyingly (H stem)
│ │  H│   │
│ │  ││   │  subjectival concord
H │  H│   │
├─┤  ├┤   │  HTD
H │  H│   │
│ │  ├┤   │  RBD
H │  H│   │
│ │  ├┘   │  LTA
H L  H    L
A slightly longer word
the major difference is the fact that all those 's changing the colours of the association lines are converted to HTML entities when the Wiki software sees that they are in <pre>'s, therefore showing the actual codes () instead of their effects.
Here's an example:
o•a•bintsha
│ │  ││   │  underlyingly (H stem)
│ │  H│   │
│ │  ││   │  subjectival concord
H │  H│   │
├─┤  ├┤   │  HTD
H │  H│   │
│ │  ├┤   │  RBD
H │  H│   │
│ │  ├┘   │  LTA
H L  H    L
A slightly longer word
see what I mean? You can the code out in a browser to see the desired effect.
The problem is that the article is a tad confusing without these colour clues showing the application of the rules (red for deletion and silver for association).
At home this code worked perfectly in HTML, so it's obviously the Wiki software's fault. Any thoughts or suggestions??
Zyxoas (talk to me - I'll listen) 10:55, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure why the span style tags aren't working properly... but there is a list here of acceptable HTML codes in Wikitext. I don't immediately see any invalid codes, however. Hersfold (talk/work) 00:09, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

text: The <pre> tag is implemented by a tag hook in the MediaWiki parser, making it similar to an extension tag like . It is somewhat equivalent to "nowiki" in that it doesn't allow embedded HTML tags. More specifically, it purposefully escapes them, as you've found. Mike Dillon 01:31, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: But how?