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@uia.ua.ac.be To: wikipedia-l@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@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. :-)
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