'' and ''' are not the worst offenders. There's also various
numbers of
equal-signs and dashes, colons and so on. All of which accomplishes
nothing that the equivalent and more widely used HTML (and thus more
widely known) doesn't also.
-----Original Message-----
From: wikipedia-l-admin(a)nupedia.com
[mailto:wikipedia-l-admin@nupedia.com]On Behalf Of tarquin
Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 13:35
To: wikipedia-l(a)nupedia.com
Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: Parsing
<discussion of "deprecated" snipped>
In response to Sean Barrett: I find that Wiki markup has so few rules
they've stuck pretty quickly. However, if '' and ''' are cryptic
to you,
don't use them. Stick to plain text, and the only thing you need to
remember is "\n\n" makes a paragraph break. A well-written article has
formatting as a mere embellishment: it is clear without it.
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