Compare and contrast:
1. <pre> a <nowiki> block </nowiki> </pre>
2. <pre> a <nowiki> block </pre>
3. a <nowiki> block </nowiki>
4. a <nowiki> block
Why is the <nowiki> rendered literally in 2, but stripped out in 1?
My working understanding of nowiki and pre was that both of them
altered the parsing/lexing behaviour, treating everything other than
its closing partner literally. So <pre> <nowiki> </pre> should render
<nowiki> literally, and <nowiki> <pre> </nowiki> should render
<pre>
literally. But this doesn't seem to be quite the case.
Would anyone care to hazard a guess as to what the correct behaviour
*should* be? Does anyone rely on one treatment over the other? The
current behaviour seems inconsistent, especially comparing 2 with 4
above.
Steve