[Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing

[Steve Callaway]

> > I don't understand. What about the
> > = Header 1 =,
> > == Header 2 ==, and
> > === Header 3 === etc.
> > markup

er. and H4 - H8? I can see why you want it. It's very idiosyncratic,
nevertheless. HTML is //much// simpler. And the stuff you learn is
//portable//. The way the wikis are going, you're going to need to know a
raft of different flavours of markup.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan.Hidders" <hidders at uia.ua.ac.be>
To: <wikipedia-l at nupedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2002 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing


> On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 10:52:32AM -0400, The Cunctator wrote:
> > On 7/30/02 8:37 AM, "Steve Callaway" <sjc at easynet.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > Tarquin,
> > >
> > > I (and probably most people I know (yeah, I live a sad life among the
SGML,
> > > XML and HTML communities)) would disagree strongly with Wiki markup on
a
> > > number of grounds. Firstly it's quirky and non-standard. The whole
point of
> > > the standard mark-up languages is that they're not difficult to learn
and
> > > carry both visual and informational order. H1, H2, H3 cannot be
replicated
> > > by wiki markup in any sense. We are also really going to need these
once we
> > > get to really large articles which require structure to the substance.
> >
> > I don't understand. What about the
> > = Header 1 =,
> > == Header 2 ==, and
> > === Header 3 === etc.
> > markup?
>
> Indeed. So these guys have learned SGML, HTML1, 2, 3 and 4, and probably
> type it by hand for a living, but learning the Wiki mark-up, wow, that is
> asking just too much. :-)
>
> -- Jan Hidders
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