comments; my filter-full branch should fix this

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@@ -18,6 +18,26 @@ This has been fixed in my po branch.
 
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+>> Hmm. Don't like adding a fourth positional parameter to that (or
+>> any really) function.
+>>
+>> I think it's quite possible that some of the directives that are
+>> calling filter do so unnecessarily. For example, conditional,
+>> cutpaste, more, and toggle each re-filter text that comes from the
+>> page and so has already been filtered. They could probably drop
+>> the filtering. template likewise does not need to filter the 
+>> parameters passed into it. Does it need to filter the template output?
+>> Well, it allows the (deprecated) embed plugin to work on template
+>> content, but that's about it.
+>>
+>> Note also that the only other plugin to provide a filter, txt,
+>> could also run into similar problems as po has, in theory (it looks at
+>> the page parameter and assumes the content is for the whole page).
+>>
+>> [[!template id=gitbranch branch=origin/filter-full author="[[joey]]"]]
+>> So, I've made a filter-full branch, where I attempt to fix this
+>> by avoiding unnecessary filtering. Can you check it and merge it into
+>> your po branch and remove your other workarounds so I can merge?
+>> --[[Joey]]
 
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